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Auction: 19025 - Ancient, Indian and Islamic, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1502

Macedon, Alexander III the Great, posthumous issue, AR Tetradrachm, Alabanda, year 5 - 165-64 BC, 16.81g, head of youthful Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress, rev. Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, holding eagle and sceptre, Pegasus rearing in left field, e {year letter} beneath throne (Meadows [2008], dies E1/E17, type a - {this coin illustrated}; Price 2464), dark attractive tone, good very fine or better

provenance
B H Webb, CNG e-Auction 406, 27 September 2017, lot 414 - $650
J E Cain, CNG Mailbid sale 76, 12 September 2007, lot 293 - $750


Further reading:
A R Meadows, 2008, "Alabanda in Caria, A Hellenistic City and its Coinage"

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Sold for
£300