CNG 105, Lot: 67. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 14.43 g, 10h). In the name and types of Philip II. Pella mint. Struck circa 336/5-329/8 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Nude youth, holding palm frond and reins, on horseback right; star below. Le Rider 371 (D187/R296); SNG ANS 410 (same dies). Good VF, toned, minor double strike on reverse. From Alexander’s first silver coinage at Pella.

From the Olympians Collection. Ex Roma III (2 October 2011), lot 240; Elsen 93 (15 September 2007), lot 132; Monetarium 51 (Spring 1989), no. 37.