MACEDONIA AND THASOS - Lot 9

MACEDONIA AND THASOS Philip II King of Macedonia Tetradrachm (crown and Пo) Amphipolis. ♦ Le Rider 46, 14 (13.45 g) Lysimachus king of Thrace Drachma bearing the name of Alexander III (lion, pentagram) minted at Colophon. ♦ Price 1842 (4.28 g) Philip III Arrhidaea Drachma in the name of Alexander (lyre) struck at Colophon. ♦ Price 1768 (4.14 g) Thrace - Thasos Tetradrachm (Dionysus/Hercules). ♦ Pozzi 1126 (16.64 g) Four Greek silver coins. T.B. and Very fine. *Zeus Ammon. From the last third of the 4th century B.C., Alexander appears with ram's horns. This type of coin was one of the most widespread in antiquity. Production continued long after the conqueror's death, in Macedonia until the advent of Demetrios Poliorcete, and in Asia Minor until the Battle of Magnesia.