363, Lot: 50. Estimate $150. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.09 g, 5h). In the name of Alexander III. Tyre mint. Struck under Laomedon. Dated RY 29 of Azemilkos (321/0 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, Phoenician ‘Z (king’s name) above Phoenician date. Price 3275 (Ake); Newell, Dated 31 (Ake); DCA 737. VF, toned, graffito on the reverse. Struck from the typical worn reverse die.

From the collection of Dr. Will Gordon.

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.