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LOT 2583

Sold for (Inc. bp): £143


Ancient Greek Coins - Macedonia - Alexander III (the Great) - Countermarked AR Tetradrachm 221-220 B.C.

Posthumous issue, Perga, Pamphylia mint, dated year 1. Obv: head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin headdress. Rev: ALEXANDROY legend with Zeus seated left, right leg drawn back, holding eagle and sceptre; ear mark A in left field; Seleukid anchor countermark to obverse. 15.80 grams.

Good very fine.

PROVENANCE:
Ex UK private collection.

LITERATURE:
Price 2915; Muller 1225; Prokesch-Osten 51.

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