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LOT 2678
Kingdom of Macedon, Antigonos I Monophthalmos Fourrée Tetradrachm. As Strategos of Asia, 320-306/5 BC.
Imitating Tyre mint issue, with uncertain date. In the name and types of Alexander III. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on backless throne, right leg drawn back, his feet resting on a low foot rest, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings; to left, date in Phoenician. Cf. Price 3293. Very Fine. Deposits on obverse.(12.81gr, 25mm, 9h.).
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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LOT 2678
Kingdom of Macedon, Antigonos I Monophthalmos Fourrée Tetradrachm.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £159
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