Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 178. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.22 g, 3h). ‘Amphipolis’ mint. Struck under Kassander, Philip IV, or Alexander (son of Kassander), circa 310-294 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, Λ above torch; below throne, M above star. Price 481; Ehrhardt 42; SNG München 327 (same rev. die); SNG Alpha Bank 542 (same obv. die); SNG Saroglos 313. EF, a hint of die wear on obverse, minor surface flaws.