Tyre under the Macedonians

375, Lot: 21. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.15 g, 11h). Tyre mint. Struck under Menon or Menes, circa 332/1-328/7 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; o below throne. Price 3244 (Ake); Newell, Dated 6 (Ake). Near VF.

From the Dennis Rider Collection of the Coins of Tyre. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 258 (22 June 2011), lot 88.