Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 319. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.20 g, 6h). ‘Amphipolis’ mint. Struck under Demetrios I Poliorketes, circa 294-290 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, thunderbolt above I; below throne, dolphin right. Price 501; Ehrhardt 55. Good VF. Well centered on a broad flan.