Macedon, Alexander III, Silver Tetradrachm, Asia Minor Capture of Tournay 1709

Capture of Tournay 1709

A few tiny nicks and spots on otherwise almost full lustre

Lion's scalp facing

variety listed as 8 over 7

11h (Price 3139

Macedon, Alexander III, Silver Tetradrachm, Asia Minor Capture of Tournay 1709Kingdom of Macedon, Alexander III, The Great (336 323 B. C.), Silver Tetradrachm. Uncertain mint in Asia Minor, posthumous issue, struck c. late second century B. C. Head of young Herakles facing right, wearing a lion's skin, rev. AEANPOY, Zeus enthroned left, holding an eagle and a sceptre, a monogram on left, 17. 02g., 12h (Price ; cf. Triton XIII, 5 January 2010, lot 107 for a similar piece with the monogram retrograde). Broad flan, some light old