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Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 218. Estimate $300. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004. 
Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.75 gm). Mytilene mint. Autonomous issue, struck circa 220-215 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; [lyre] and monogram in left field. Price 1703 (same dies as plated example); Müller -. Toned VF. ($300)

From the Tuck Pittman Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 57 (4 April 2001), lot 205.

The lyre on this example is almost entirely missing, possibly as a result of a die fill.