Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 192. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.12 g, 12h). Uncertain mint in Greece or Macedon. Struck circa 310-275 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in circle in left field, ΛO monogram below throne. Price 870 var. (monogram below throne); SNG München -; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG Saroglos -. EF, lightly toned, a couple small spots of die rust on obverse. Very rare issue.