CNG 106, Lot: 208. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Kassander. As regent, 317-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.21 g, 7h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Pella mint. Struck circa 317/6-310 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; ax in left field, coiled serpent below throne. Price 246; Moore 216–8; HGC 3.1, 990. Superb EF, lightly toned, underlying luster, a hint of die wear. Rare, only three in Pella, one of six in CoinArchives.

Ex Roma II (2 October 2011), lot 247 (hammer £2400).