Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 184. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.12 g, 12h). Uranopolis mint(?). Struck under Kassander, Philip IV, Antipater, or Demetrios I Poliorketes, circa 300-290 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, star on cone above Θ; ME monogram below throne. Price 522 (same dies as illustration); SNG München -; SNG Alpha Bank 553; SNG Saroglos 323 (same dies). Near EF, underlying luster.