Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 121. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.85 g, 1h). Aspendos mint. Civic issue, dated CY 12 (circa 201/0 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / ALEXANDROU, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, AS above IB (date). Price 2892; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG München -; SNG Saroglos -; Mektepini 564 (same obv. die). Superb EF, thin die break on obverse, minor die shift on reverse.

Ex Ronald Cohen Collection (Triton VIII, 11 January 2005), lot 175; Tkalec (19 February 2001), lot 64.

See C. Boehringer, “Beobachtungen und Überlegungen zu den Ären der pamphylischen Alexandreier” in Melanges Le Rider for an alternate dating of the civic era at Pamphylia, which places this issue in 199/8 BC.