390, Lot: 39. Estimate $200. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.17 g, 7h). Sidon mint. Struck under Menes. Dated RY 8 of Abdalonymos (326/5 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; H (date [in Phoenician]) in left field, ΣI below throne. Price 3485 (same dies as illustration); Newell, Dated 24 (obv. die XII); DCA 874. VF, toned, off center, deposits. Very rare date, only two in Pella, one in CoinArchives (this coin).

From the collection of Dr. Will Gordon. Ex G. Hirsch 269 (23 September 2010), lot 2408; G. Hirsch 266 (11 February 2010), lot 1637; G. Hirsch 263 (24 September 2009), lot 219.