Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 431. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $345. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.14 g, 1h). Arados mint. Struck circa 323-315 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field and below throne. Price P162 (Marathos). EF, lightly toned, a few deposits.

From Collection C.P.A. Ex Münzen und Medaillen Deutschland 11 (7 November 2002), lot 623.

See A. Houghton, “Aradus, not Marathus” in Studies Price, for the reattribution of the early Marathos coinage to Arados.