429, Lot: 56. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 16.80 g, 1h). Tyre mint. Struck under Laomedon. Dated RY 27 of ‘Ozmilk (323/2 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, -|O (Phoenician ‘K = ‘Ozmilk [king of Tyre]) above [|] ||| ||| = (date [27 in Phoenician]); Phoenician A below throne. Price 3271 corr. (arrangement of date; Ake); Newell, Dated 28, dies XX/γ; DCA 736. VF, a little porosity, slightly off center.

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 321/0 BC. The article is currently available at https://www.academia.edu/36979096/The_Satrapal_and_Alexander_Coinage_of_Tyre