Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 170. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.36 gm). Rhodes mint. Autonomous issue, struck 201-190 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / ALEXANDROU, Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; rose before, PO below throne, STASIWN (magistrate) in exergue. Price 2517; Müller 1166. Toned EF, well centered, reverse slightly double struck. ($500)

Price believes this issue may have been struck in response to the threat posed by the activities of Philip V, who was in the vicinity of Rhodes during this time.