194, Lot: 20. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1211. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.92 g, 12h). Aigai mint(?). Lifetime issue, struck under Antipater, circa 332-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, pankratiast standing left, in ‘guard’ position. Price 187; Noe, Sicyon 3. VF, toned, obverse struck a little softly, die break on reverse. Rare.

From the collection of Maj. Anthony F. Milavic, USMC (Ret.). Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXXII (7 December 1994), lot 113; Classical Numismatic Auctions XIV (20 March 1991), lot 58.

See A. Milavic, “Pankration and Greek Coins,” The Celator 13, 12 (December 1999), pp. 12-13, for the author’s arguments in favor of retaining Noe’s attribution of this series to Sicyon.