438, Lot: 71. Estimate $200. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 16.84 g, 7h). In the name and types of Alexander III. 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 737; ANS inv. 1944.100.35406 (same dies). Good VF, lightly toned.

See A. DeShazo, “Dated Satrapal and Alexander Coinage of Tyre” (forthcoming), for an analysis of this series, which places the present issue in 322/1 BC. The article is currently available at https://www.academia.edu/38278193/Dated_Satrapal_and_Alexander_Coinage_of_Tyre.pdf