255, Lot: 45. Estimate $200. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.19 g, 6h). Myriandros or Issos mint. Struck under Menes or Philotas, circa 325-324/3 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram, club in wreath and [globule] in left field; MI monogram below throne. Price 3231; Newell, Myriandros 28-9. Good VF.

See J.D. Bing, "Reattribution of the "Myriandrus" Alexanders: the Case for Issus" AJN 1 (1989), for an alternative attribution of the Myriandros series to the mint of Issos.