Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 340. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.76 g, 12h). Miletos mint. Civic issue, struck circa 290-270 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field, labrys below throne. Price 2150. Good VF.

This monogram was the civic monogram of Miletos, featured on both the civic and Alexandrine issues of Miletos over the subsequent 150 years.