CNG 90, Lot: 425. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.45 g, 1h). In the name and types of Philip II. Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 336/5-329/8 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Nude youth, holding palm frond and reins, on horseback right; bee below, prow below horse’s raised foreleg. Le Rider 474 (D232’/R424); SNG ANS 559 (same dies). Good VF, lightly toned. From Alexander’s first silver coinage at Amphipolis.

Ex Peus 403 (27 April 2011), lot 91.