418, Lot: 79. Estimate $200. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 16.54 g, 10h). Tarsos mint, “officina B”. Struck under Balakros or Menes, circa 333-327 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; B below throne. Price 3000; Newell, Tarsos, Series I, Second Group, 4 (obv. die XV). VF, toned, some porosity.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Dieter Gorny, October 1993.