Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 174. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.70 g, 12h). Sidon mint. Civic issue, dated CY 22 (312/1 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; X (date) in left field, ΣI below throne. Price 3511; Newell, Dated 57 (dies XXX/a); Rouvier -. Good VF, lightly toned, struck from slightly worn dies.