Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 342. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.66 g, 1h). Mesembria mint. Civic issue, struck circa 275-225 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, Corinthian helmet right; monogram in exergue. Price 985; Karayotov 3 (O2/R3). EF, attractively toned. Struck from dies of superb style.