Unique and Unpublished

418, Lot: 90. Estimate $200. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.13 g, 6h). Arados mint. Struck under Menes, circa 325/4-324/3 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; [M]’ (in Aramaic) in left field, A below throne. Price 3303A var. (no letter below throne); Duyrat Group II, 26–9 var. (D9/R– [unlisted reverse die with A below throne]). VF, slightly off center on obverse, contemporary marks in reverse field apparently in attempt to remove Aramaic letter M. Unpublished issue with Aramaic M’ and A below throne. Apparently unique.