Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 171. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $465. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.91 g, 7h). Ake mint. Dated CY 9 (307/6 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; date in left field (partially visible). Price 3299; Newell, Ake 48 (obv. die XLI); Rouvier -. Good VF, overstruck on uncertain type.

Beginning in 308/7 BC, the dates on the tetradrachms of Ake were changed to a new era based on the arrival date of Antigonos I Monophthalmos in Phoenicia (CY 1 = 315/4 BC; cf. Price pp. 406-7).