CNG 108, Lot: 67. Estimate $300. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Drachm (16.5mm, 4.28 g, 12h). Magnesia ad Maeandrum mint. Struck under Menander, circa 325-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, head of ram right. Price 1932 var. (position of symbol); Hersh, Additions 27 = C. Hersh & H. Troxell, “A 1993 Hoard of Alexander Drachms” in AJN 5-6 (1993-4), pl. 5, 2.1c (same dies); Pecunem 31, lot 81 (same dies). Superb EF, lustrous. Well centered. Very rare, only one in CoinArchives.