Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 432. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $210. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.88 g, 11h). Local imitation of Pella mint issue. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; thunderbolt in left field. For prototype, cf. Price 231; cf. Moore 170-93. VF, minor die rust.

A comparison with illustrations of Price issue 231, and particularly the examples in Moore’s die study, reveals significant differences in the style of the head of Herakles and the throne of Zeus that strongly suggest this example is an imitation.