Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 256. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.08 gm). Gerrha mint. Autonomous issue, struck circa 250 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; Semitic "shem" in left field, trace of monogram under throne. Price 3957; Arnold-Biucchi, "Arabian Alexanders," in Mnemata: Papers in Memory of Nancy M. Waggoner, 6; Müller -. Good VF. Very rare mint, only 20 specimens recorded by Arnold-Biucchi. ($2000)

From the Tuck Pittman Collection.