190, Lot: 42. Estimate $150. Sold for $155. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.18 g). ‘Barbarous’ issue. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; wreath to left; X below throne. Cf. Price pl. CLIII, B36. VF, toned, ragged flan.

Price (p. 506) notes that the ‘barbarous’ copies of Alexander III tetradrachms differ from contemporary imitations in that they were meant not to defraud but rather to provide coinages for the local economies in areas on the fringes of the classical world.