CNG 93, Lot: 145. Estimate $300. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.28 g, 8h). Abydos mint. Struck under Kalas or Demarchos, circa 325-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, Hermes, holding kerykeion, standing left; Ξ below throne. Price 1502 (and 1499 corr. – Hermes, not male figure); ADM II series I, 20 (same obv. die). Near EF, lightly toned, a couple die breaks on obverse, spot of die rust and porosity on reverse. Rare.