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- ID: 156
Submitter: Jean-Luc
Added: 1997-12-17
MACEDONIA.
Alexander III, the Great, 336-323 B.C.
AR-Dekadrachm, c. 328 B.C.
Av.: Alexander, on horseback to r., attacking elephant moving r., bearing two riders.
Rv.: Alexander standing l., holding spear and thunderbolt, to l., Nike flying r. to crown him.
41,06 g.
Ref.: cf. M.J. Price, The “Poros” coinage of Alexander the Great, Studio Paulo Naster Oblata (Louvain 1982), pl. 10,2. Coin hoards I, 1975, fig. 64.
BoC: 17/1, 1992, p.15.
FAKE – “Galvano Boys”. The new dies for this forgery were made from a coin offered in a Leu sale (Leu 45, 1988, lot 132).