375, Lot: 25. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Obol (9mm, 0.44 g, 12h). Tyre mint. Struck under Menes. Dated RY 21 of Azemilkos (329/8 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, Phoenician ‘Z above |= (date). Price 3253 (Ake); Newell, Dated 15; DCA 741. VF, toned, areas of light porosity. Struck on an irregular flan.

From the Dennis Rider Collection of the Coins of Tyre. Ex Peter Lee Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 286, 5 September 2012), lot 45.