Extremely Rare Variety

421, Lot: 76. Estimate $300. Sold for $757. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AR Tetradrachm (226mm, 17.16 g, 9h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Babylon mint. Struck under Archon, Dokimos, or Seleukos I, circa 323-318/7 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, facing head of Helios above N; KY below throne. Price 3698 var. (T not N); Seleucus I Hoard 1326 = Goldberg 70, lot 3057 = CNG 72, lot 428 (same dies). Good VF, toned, slightly off center on reverse. Extremely rare, only the Seleucus I Hoard piece published.

From the collection of José Miguel Márquez del Prado.