419, Lot: 27. 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 (24mm, 17.14 g, 11h). Amphipolis mint. Struck under Antipater, circa 332-326 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; stylis in left field. Price 20; Troxell, Studies, Issue B4. VF, toned, a few marks on reverse. Very rare, Troxell notes six examples (including the five in Pella), one in CoinArchives.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Roland Michael (NumisArt). Ex Michael Durr (16 November 1998), lot 439.