Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 119. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.08 g, 12h). Uncertain mint in Western Asia Minor. Struck late 4th-early 3rd centuries BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / ALEXANDROU, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; akrostolion (or bearded serpent?) in left field. Unpublished. Superb EF, light golden hue around the devices. Graceful and elegant style.

This unpublished tetradrachm is similar in style and fabric to late 4th - early 3rd century issues from mints in Western Asia Minor (see, e.g., Price pl. LVII, 167). It is also very similar to another unpublished issue that recently came to light, which has a club in the left field (Triton IX, 787, and CNG 70, 118).