Overdate – Year 2 Engraved Over Year 1

CNG 87, Lot: 345. Estimate $300. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.20 g, 2h). Sidon mint. Struck under Menon or Menes. Dated RY 2 of Abdalonymos (332/1 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; Aramaic Ṣade in left field, Aramaic Bet (date) below throne. Price 3468; Newell, Dated 9 (dies III/a). VF, light scratch on reverse. Very rare.

Traces of the Aramaic Aleph (year 1) are visible below the Aramaic Bet (year 2).