Lot 1034
Macedonian Kingdom. Alexander III 'the Great'. Silver Tetradrachm (17.09 g), 336-323 BC. Babylon, lifetime, ca. 325-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress. Reverse: BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus seated left, holding eagle and scepter; in left field, thunderbolt above M; below throne, monogram. Price 3680; cf. Kraay-Hirmer pl. 173 (decadrachm of the same style). Amongst the finst known tetradrachms of Alexander the Great, and by the same hand that made Alexander's famous decadrachms. A life-time iss of superb artistic merit. Some trace of silver oxide remain on the reverse. A fabulous example. Mint State. Estimate Value $2,000 - UP
From the Lee Rousseau Collection; Ex CNR XXII, 3 (Fall/Winter 1997), 16; CNA XI (3 May 1990), 37.
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