Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1113. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.23 g, 12h). Myriandros or Issos mint. Struck 325-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field and below throne. Price 3223; Newell, Myriandros 22; SNG München 719 (same obv. die); SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG Saroglos 555 (same obv. die). Near EF, lustrous, minor die wear on obverse.

See J.D. Bing, "Reattribution of the "Myriandrus" Alexanders: the Case for Issus" AJN 1 (1989), for an alternative attribution of the Myriandros series to the mint of Issos.