Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 336. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Drachm (4.24 g, 12h). Magnesia mint. Struck under Antigonos I Monophthalmos, circa 319-305 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field and below throne. Price 1959 var. (symbols); Hersh, Additions 42. EF, lightly toned.

The ethnic on this example lacks the final -Y, but this is not unusual for drachms in this period.