Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 191. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.10 g, 6h). Uncertain mint in Greece or Macedon. Struck circa 310-275 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, dolphin left; monogram below throne; in exergue, tortoise left. Price 851; SNG München 393 (same dies); SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG Saroglos -. Good VF, slight die shift, minor die wear on obverse. Rare tortoise symbol.

Struck from the same obverse die as the previous lot.