Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 176. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.05 g, 6h). Tyre mint. Struck under Demetrios Poliorketes, circa 301-286 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, monogram in circle set on line; monogram in circle below throne. Price 3537; Hersh, Tyrus 24 (obv. die VII). EF, obverse struck off center.

Struck from the same obverse die as the previous lot.