LOT 2590
Ancient Greek Coins - Macedonia - Alexander III (the Great) - Countermarked Zeus AR Tetradrachm 213-212 B.C.
Phaselis, Pamphylia mint, posthumous issue, dated year 9. Obv: head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin headdress; Seleukid anchor countermark on head. Rev: ALEXANDROY legend with Zeus seated left, right leg drawn back, holding eagle and sceptre; Θ over F in left field. O beneath throne. Very fine.(16.28 grams.).
ProvenanceEx UK private collection.
LiteraturePrice 2845; Prokesch-Osten 53.
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LOT 2590
Ancient Greek Coins - Macedonia - Alexander III (the Great) - Countermarked Zeus AR Tetradrachm
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
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Ancient Greek Coins - Macedonia - Alexander III (the Great) - Countermarked Zeus AR Tetradrachm 213-212 B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Phaselis, Pamphylia mint, posthumous issue, dated year 9. Obv: head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin headdress; Seleukid anchor countermark on head. Rev: ALEXANDROY legend with Zeus seated left, right leg drawn back, holding eagle and sceptre; Θ over F in left field. O beneath throne. 16.28 grams.
Very fine.
Ex UK private collection. -
Ancient Greek Coins - Sicily - Syracuse - Timoleon - AE Litra 344-317 B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,300
Obv: ZEYS ELEYQERIOY legend with bearded and laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios left, star behind head. Rev: SYRAKOSION legend with triskeles of human legs rotating left with central gorgoneion. 6.46 grams.
Good very fine; some tooling.
Ex John Moore, York, UK, in the late 1990s. Property of a Harrow, UK gentleman. -
Ancient Greek Coins - Macedonia - Alexander III (the Great) - Countermarked AR Tetradrachm 213-212 B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Perga, Pamphylia mint, dated year 6. Obv: head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin headdress; Seleukid anchor countermark on head. Rev: ALEXANDROY with Zeus seated left, right leg drawn back, holding eagle and sceptre; square C over Φ in left field, O beneath throne. 15.93 grams.
Very fine.
Ex UK private collection.
