351, Lot: 95. Estimate $300. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 16.57 g, 4h). Tyre mint. Struck under Menes. Dated RY 25 of Azemilkos (325/4 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, Phoenician ‘Z (king’s name) above Phoenician date. Price 3262 (Ake); Newell, Dated 22 (obv. die XVIII - unlisted for issue); DCA 736. VF, toned, some porosity and light deposits, obverse off center.

From the collection of Dr. Will Gordon.

This obverse die was known to Newell as the earliest for coinage dated to the following year.