Gemini III, Lot 98 Jan 2007
Estimate: US$2000

MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III The Great. (336-323 BC). Silver 
 tetradrachm (17.08 gm). Western Asia Minor, probably Mytilene, Ca. 
 300–280 BC. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress / 
 AËEÎANÄÑOÕ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle on extended right 
 hand and resting left on lotus scepter, bearded serpent left in left 
 field. 
Unpublished. For style, see Price 1697a, pl. lvii. Cf. also 
Bodenstedt 96, an electrum hecte of Mytilene showing the same 
 bearded serpent. 

Sold for high bid of $4000 [ $4600, or approx 3555.8 EUR, 2346 GBP.] 

Re-used by permission of Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com) 
and Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com)