427, Lot: 98. Estimate $200. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great'. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.89 g, 2h). Tyre mint. Undated issue, struck under Menon or Menes, circa 332/1-328/7 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; -|O (Phoenician ‘K = ‘Ozmilk [king of Tyre]) in left field. Price 3248 (Ake); Newell, Dated 10, obv. die XI. Good VF, lightly toned, some die wear, smoothing in fields on reverse.

See A. DeShazo, “The Satrapal and Alexander Coinage of Tyre” in JONS 233 (forthcoming), for an analysis of this series, which places the present issue in 329/8 BC. The article is currently available at https://www.academia.edu/36979096/The_Satrapal_and_Alexander_Coinage_of_Tyre