Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 174. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AV ¼ Stater (2.16 g, 2h). ‘Amphipolis’ mint. Struck under Antipater, circa 330-320 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing single-pendant earring, necklace, and crested Corinthian helmet decorated with serpent / AΛEΞAN-ΔPOY, bow above club left; thunderbolt above. Price 165; SNG München 232; SNG Alpha Bank 464-6; SNG Saroglos 179. EF, lustrous, usual light die rust. Perfectly centered on a broad flan.