CNG 103, Lot: 120. Estimate $500. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.40 g, 1h). Karne mint. Struck under Menes, circa 325/4-324/3 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field. Price 3429; Duyrat, Ateliers, p. 37, n. 44; Lanz 138, lot 306 (same obv. die); ANS 1944.100.35115 and 1944.100.35116 (both from same dies). VF, toned, light porosity, faint scratch in field on obverse. Extremely rare, particularly without royal title; only one in CoinArchives, two in Pella database.

From the collection of Will Gordon.