Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 393. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.16 g, 11h). Rhodes mint; Hephaistion, magistrate. Civic issue, struck circa 205-190 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, HΦAIΣTIΩN above rose; PO below throne. Price 2522; Kleiner, Alexander, series IX, obv. die S; Ashton 254. EF, attractive iridescent toning. Fine style.

From Collection C.P.A. Ex Münzen & Medaillen AG 95 (4 October 2004), lot 32.