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ID:
253312
Type:
Greek
Region:
MACEDONIAN KINGS
Issuer:
Alexander III
Date Ruled:
336-323 BC
Metal:
Silver
Denomination:
Tetradrachm
Struck / Cast:
struck
Date Struck:
285-275 BC
Diameter:
27 mm
Weight:
16.75 g
Die Axis:
6 h
Obverse Description:
Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress
Reverse Legend:
ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
Reverse Description:
Zeus seated left on backless throne, right leg drawn back, holding eagle in right hand and scepter in left; tripod in left field, monogram below throne
Mint:
Pella
Primary Reference:
Price unlisted Tet. #096
Reference2:
Müller 1152
Photograph Credit:
Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
Source:
http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=253312
Grade:
aVF
Notes:
As he could not find an example of Müller’s 1152, Price left it out of his corpus. The obverse die link to the BM coin of Price 546 assures us of the mint and date of this issue. In his text, Müller noted that the coin he saw was in the collection of A. von Prokesch-Osten, but the latter did not list this exact variety in the listings of his collection in NZ 1 and 3 (= Price PO(1) and PO(2), respectively). However, Price notes that von Prokesch-Osten was not careful in recording his issues, so it is possible that PO(1) 250, with tripod in left field and star below throne, attributed to the same mint as Müller 1152, is the coin Müller referred to. In any event, as Price did not find that coin, its current location is unknown, thus, the present coin is either that coin, or the second recorded example.
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