Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 165. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.30 g, 12h). Rhodes mint; Teisylos, magistrate. Civic issue, struck circa 205-190 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, TEIΣYΛOΣ above rose; PO below throne. Price 2520; Kleiner, Alexander, series XI, obv. die unlisted; Ashton 252. Good VF, toned, minor die wear on obverse, slight doubling on reverse.