Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 179. 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 (17.06 g, 2h). ‘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, dolphin right. Price 485; Ehrhardt 47; SNG München 329-30; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG Saroglos 314. Near EF, lightly toned. Overstruck on uncertain type.