Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 352. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.10 g, 9h). Babylon mint. Lifetime issue, circa 325-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; M in left field, monogram below throne. Price 3605. Good VF, toned. Exceptional for issue.

From the last lifetime issue of Alexander, struck in the city where he died.