Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 302. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.19 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 / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, Λ above torch; below throne, above strut, forepart of Pegasos right. Price 459 var. (no strut on throne); Ehrhardt 27 var. (same). Good VF, underlying luster.