Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 291. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.57 g, 12h). Temnos mint. Civic issue, struck circa 188-170 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, monograms above oinochoe within vine tendril. Price 1683 var. (monogram on right). VF.

The monogram on this coin differs from Price 1683 in that the central A in the monogram has a chevron-type crossbar, with a line projecting downward from the center of the chevron.