Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 168. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Obol (0.64 g, 2h). Myriandros or Issos mint. Lifetime issue, struck 325-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field and below throne. Price 3227; Newell, Myriandros -; Sternberg XXI, 84 (same dies). EF, toned, with good metal. Exceptional.