Ancients: MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AR tetradrachm (25mm, 16.21 gm, 12h)....

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MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AR tetradrachm (25mm, 16.21 gm, 12h). Late lifetime or early posthumous issue of Cyprus, ca. 325/3-319/8 BC. Head of Heracles right, wearing lion-skin headdress / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus seated left, holding eagle and scepter; in left left, prow right; under throne, I above strut. Price 3091 (Amathus). Rare. Attractive old cabinet toning. Good Very Fine.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 84 (5 May 2010), lot 270; Classical Numismatic Group 75 (23 May 2007), lot 136; Gorny & Mosch 118 (15 October 2002), lot 1252.

See Troxell, "Alexanders from Soli on Cyprus," Essays Price for the re-attribution of this series from Amathus to Cyprus.
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