GC Le monete più attraenti di Alessandro Magno

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 Tetradramma Price 577 della Hess-Divo AG Auction 342, 1 December 2024.

Lot number: 28. Estimate: 1000 CHF. Price realized: 3,000 CHF (Approx. 3,405 USD / 3,224 EUR)

Lot description:
KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA
ALEXANDROS III THE GREAT, king 336-323 BC. Tetradrachm, posthumous, Pella, about 280-270. AR 16.75 g. Unbearded head of Heracles r., wearing lion skin. Rev. AΛEΞANΔPOY Zeus, wearing himation, nude to waist, seated l. on diphros, holding sceptre with his l. hand, eagle on his outstretched r. hand; in field l., bunch of grapes and monogram. Price 146,577; R.W. Mathisen, Antigonus Gonatas and the Silver Coinages of Macedonia circa 280-270 BC, ANS MN 26 (1981), pl. 20,22 (this specimen). Nice old tone. Extremely fine
Provenance: From an old Swiss Collection started in the 19th century. Cl. S. Bement, Philadelphia Collection Auction Naville & Cie, Geneva VI (1924),722.

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 Tetradramma Price 590 poi contromarcata per l’uso a Bisanzio della Noble Numismatics Pty Ltd, Auction 137, 26 November 2024.

Lot number: 2990. Estimate: 1500 AUD. Price realized: 900 AUD (Approx. 582 USD / 555 EUR).

Lot description: Thrace, Byzantion, (c.235-220 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (16.85 g), originally struck c. 280-275, probably at Pella Mint, under Antigonos II Gonatas, subsequently countermarked for use in Byzantion, obv. head of Herakles to right, wearing lion's skin headdress, below his ear, countermarked in a large, circular indent, PY above a galley prow to right, with a dolphin swimming downwards on the truncation of the prow, rev. to right ALEXANDROU , Zeus seated left on backless throne, holding eagle on his outstretched right hand and long scepter in his left, in field to left, bunch of grapes, in exergue, monogram of SKE , (for the original coin, cf.S.6713, Mathisen 26, Price 590, for the countermark, see: M. Thompson, "A Countermarked Hoard from Buyukcekmece", MN VI (1954), type II, 48-52, and W. M. Stancomb, "Some Countermarked and Overstruck Hellenistic Coins from the Region of the Thracian Bosporus", NC 167 (2007), p. 27, 6. Toned, host coin lightly toned, very fine, countermark nearly extremely fine, an extremely interesting and unusual coin, illustrating a particular event within Byzantion's economic history.

Ex D.G.L.Worland Collection. Previously Nomos 22, lot 70. With ticket.

It appears that this countermark was placed on Attic weight silver coins in order to allow them to continue circulating in Byzantion after the city had switched to a lighter, Ptolemaic, standard for its coinage. This, in turn, was caused by the tribute the city was forced to pay to the Galatians in Thrace, resulting in an ever increasing shortage of silver. (per Nomos).

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Tetradramma Price 623 della Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG Auction 416, 29 October 2024.

L’elmo con cimiero rende probabile la sua coniazione sotto Antigono Gonata in quaanto è il segno di zecca più comune sulle sue monete.

Lot number: 1616. Estimate: 1500 EUR. Price realized: 1,800 EUR (Approx. 1,944 USD) 

Lot description: MACEDONIA KÖNIGREICH. Antigonos Gonatas, 277-239 v. Chr.
AR-Tetradrachme (Alexandreier), 275/270 v. Chr. Pella; 17.01 g. Herakleskopf im Löwenfell r.//Zeus Aetophoros sitzt l. davor Helm, unter dem Thron Monogramm.
Price 623; Hoover 1040.
Sehr schön-vorzüglich
Exemplar der Auktion Hess-Divo 340, Zürich 2022, Nr. 24.
Das Beizeichen Helm mit Helmbusch macht es wahrscheinlich, dass diese Prägung unter Antigonos Gonatas erfolgte. Es ist das häufigste Münzzeichen seiner Prägungen.

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Tetradramma Price 759 dalla CNG Auction 106, 13 sett. 2017.

Lot 226. Estimate: 750 USD. Price realized: 750 USD.

Greek
KINGS of MACEDON. temp. Demetrios I Poliorketes – Antigonos II Gonatas. Circa 300-250 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.22 g, 3h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Uncertain mint in the Peloponnese (Argos?). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left on throne with Nikai on back; in left field, Athena Promachos advancing left; EY below throne. Price 759; Troxell, Peloponnesian Group I, Issue 3, dies A6/P– (unlisted rev. die). EF.
From the WN Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 82 (16 September 2009), lot 435.

Martin Price did not assign this issue to a particular mint, but Hyla Troxell suggested all the coins of her Group I were struck at the mint of Argos, while that city was under the control of a tyrant who was installed by Antigonos II Gonatas. However, the style and fabric of the coins of Group I are nearly identical to the issues of Demetrios I Poliorketes that Troxell and Price placed at Corinth around 300 BC.

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Dalle aste Leu un tetradramma di Antigono Gonata di alta qualità e un esemplare suberato.

Tetradramma Pan/Atena di Antigono Gonata dalla Leu Numismatik AG, Auction 16, 19 October 2024.

Lot number: 68. Estimate: 3500 CHF. Price realized: 4,200 CHF (Approx. 4,855 USD / 4,484 EUR)

Lot description:
KINGS OF MACEDON. Antigonos II Gonatas, 277/6-239 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 30 mm, 17.17 g, 3 h), Amphipolis, circa 274/1-260/55. Horned head of Pan to left, wearing goat skin around his neck and with lagobolon behind; all within the center of a Macedonian shield adorned with stars and crescents. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ - ANTIΓONOΥ Athena Alkidemos striding left, seen three-quarters from behind, brandishing thunderbolt in her right hand and holding shield decorated with aegis on her left arm; to left, facing Macedonian helmet with transverse crest; to right, monogram of HΛ. HGC 3.1, 1042. Panagopoulou, period I, 86g (this coin, O26/R82). SNG Ashmolean 3258-9. SNG Copenhagen 1199. SNG Fitzwilliam 2304 (same dies). Attractively toned and perfectly centered. Minor marks on Pan's cheek, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.

Ex Vinchon, 27 February 1961, 121, and from the collection of R. de Castro Maya, Bourgey, 18-19 November 1957, 64.

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Tetradramma suberato Pan/Atena di Antigono Gonata dalla Leu Numismatik AG, Web Auction 33, 15 March 2025.

Lot number: 921. Starting price: 25 CHF. Price realized: 190 CHF

Lot description:
KINGS OF MACEDON. Antigonos II Gonatas, 277/6-239 BC. Tetradrachm (Subaeratus, 29 mm, 12.24 g, 3 h), a contemporary imitation of an issue from Amphipolis or Pella. Irregular mint, after 239. Horned head of Pan to left, wearing goat skin around his neck and with lagobolon behind; all within the center of a Macedonian shield adorned with stars and crescents. Rev. BAΣ[IΛEΩΣ] - AИTIΓOИOΥ Athena Alkidemos striding left, holding shield with her left hand and brandishing a thunderbolt in her right; to left, facing Macedonian helmet with transverse crest. Cf. HGC 3.1, 1042 and Panagopoulou pl. 55, 3-4 (for prototype). Breaks in plating, otherwise, very fine.

From the collection of Judge Hans-Joachim Specht (1935-2024), started in 1963.
 

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