Silver - 27th January 2010

Lot 172

Ancient Greece

Estimate £70 - £100 | Hammer £70

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Description

Ancient Greece, Macedon, Alexander III, The Great (336-323 B.C.), silver Tetradrachm, head of Alexander as Herakles right, wearing lion-skin, rev Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and sceptre, (?) A below throne, 16.9gm (S 6713ff), fine; bronze coins (4), Gozo and Syracuse (3), poor. (5) Old envelopes state some or all of the latter coins found in Winchester, c. 1930.