166, Lot: 9. Estimate $200. Sold for $235. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.10 g). ‘Amphipolis’ mint. Struck under Kassander, circa 316-315 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; forked branch in left field, P with pellet below throne. Price 126 corr.; Troxell, Studies, Group L1. VF. There is some die rust and light die breaks around the symbol before Zeus, making certain identification difficult. It could be a forked branch, aplustre (Price 129), grain ear (Price 130) or an unrecorded symbol resembling a curved, short-handled knife.