Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 317. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.37 g, 6h). ‘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; monogram below throne. Price 495; Ehrhardt 30. EF, area of flat strike.

As indicated by the two plate coins in Price, 495a and 495b, the monogram appears as either a normal ligate ΔI, as on the previous lot, or as an N set on a bar, as on the present coin.