CNG 100, Lot: 46. Estimate $4000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AV Stater (20.5mm, 8.60 g, 5h). Tyre mint. Struck under Menes. Dated RY 25 of ‘Ozmilk (325/4 BC). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with griffin, and necklace, drapery around neck / AΛEΞAN-ΔPOY, Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling stylis in left arm; below right wing, Phoenician ‘K (for ‘Ozmilk) above || ||| = (date). Price 3261 (Ake); Newell, Dated 21 (dies H/β); Rouvier –; HGC 10, 1 (Ake); DCA 733. Near EF, minor double strike on reverse. Struck on a broad flan. Clear date, confirming Newell’s assumption that this reverse die read 25.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Triton IX (10 January 2006), lot 796.

For the reattribution of the Alexander series of Ake to the mint of Tyre, see A. Lemaire, “Le monnayage de Tyr et celui dit d’Akko dans la deuxième moitié du IV siècle avant J.-C.,” RN 1976, and G. Le Rider, Alexander the Great: Coinage, Finances, and Policy (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2007), pp. 125-34.