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ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
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206
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ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
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Estimate €300
Voluntary lot
Description
ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
Babylonia, Seleucus I, satrap (321–305 BC). Tetradrachm, bearing the name and effigy of Alexander III of Macedon ND (311–305 BC), Babylon.
Obverse: Head of Heracles facing right, holding the carcass of the Nemean lion.
Rev. AΛΕΞΑΝΔΡOΥ - ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ. Zeus, aetophoros, seated on the left on a throne, holding a sceptre in his left hand and an eagle in his right; to the left (different) and beneath the throne: MI.
HGC 9, 10f-g – Price 3747 – SC.82.5; Silver – 16.53 g – 27 mm – 5 h
From a CNA Ltd sale IX, 12 July 1989, lot 43.
High relief with a fine portrait on the obverse. The reverse is slightly corroded with the fields barely scraped. Fine grey patina. Superb / Very Fine.
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