Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 201. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $980. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.20 g, 12h). Uncertain mint in western Asia Minor. Struck late 4th-early 3rd centuries BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; kantharos in left field. Price 873; SNG München -; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG Saroglos -; CNG 66, lot 201 (same dies). Near EF. Well centered and struck.

The style of these dies is a match for two other uncertain issues that have recently come to light, bearing a club (Triton IX, 787; CNG 70, 118; Gorny & Mosch 117, 172) or akrostolion/serpent (Triton XI, 119 = Gemini III, 98) in the left field. While Price placed his number 873 under uncertain Greek mints, no known provenance places any in that region. Conversely, the style and flan of these coins is most similar to issues from mints in western Asia Minor (see, e.g., Price pl. LVII, 1697 [Mytilene] and pl. LIX, 1874 [Ephesos]).