420, Lot: 64. Estimate $500. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.27 g, 11h). In the name and types of Philip II. Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 336/5-329/8 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Nude youth, holding palm frond and reins, on horseback right; bee below, rudder below horse’s raised foreleg. Le Rider 502–3 var. (D241/R– [unlisted rev. die]); HGC 3, 865. VF, toned, light porosity. Fine style. Rare issue with rudder.

From Alexander’s first silver coinage at Amphipolis.