Very Rare Early Didrachm

CNG 106, Lot: 163. Estimate $1000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Didrachm (19mm, 8.53 g, 2h). Amphipolis mint. Struck under Antipater, circa 332-326 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; filleted kerykeion in left field. Price 37; Troxell, Studies, Issue C1, 132 (same dies). Near EF, lightly toned, a little off center, lamination on obverse. Very rare, only one in Pella (illustrated in Troxell), none in CoinArchives.

From the Belgica Collection. Ex Elsen 93 (15 September 2007), lot 140; Jean Niaville Collection (Elsen 52, 13 December 1997), lot 66; Lanz 48 (22 May 1989), lot 193.