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Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 189. Estimate $500. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004. 
Sold For $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Drachm (3.94 gm). Amphipolis or Aigai mint. Lifetime issue, struck circa 332-326, or 325-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Eagle standing right, head left, on thunderbolt; monogram to right. Price 153; Müller -. Nice VF, hoard patina, obverse field smoothed, light reverse roughness. Rare. ($500)

The dating of this issue is based on a similarity of style to Troxell, Macedon, Groups A and E.