Sale: Nomos 3 & 4, Lot: 49. Estimate CHF3500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 May 2011.  Sold For CHF6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander I. 498-454 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 13.29 g 11), c. 460-451/0. Horseman, wearing chlamys and petasos and holding two spears, riding horse walking to right. Rev. Forepart of a goat to right, head turned back to left, all within a square linear frame within a shallow incuse square. Raymond 114. SNG Alpha Bank 73 (same dies). SNG ANS 33. U. Wartenberg, A Small Group of Tetradrachms of Alexander I of Macedon, CH IX, 7 (this coin). Rare. Well centered and toned. Very fine.

From the Spina collection, and that of R. Weimer, Triton IX, 10 January 2006, 730, and from the “Unknown Findspot Hoard” of 1999 (CH IX, 9).