417, Lot: 81. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 16.97 g, 1h). Sidon mint. Struck under Menon or Menes. Dated RY 2 of Abdalonymos (332/1 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; Aramaic Ṣade in left field, Aramaic Bet (date) below throne. Price 3468; Newell, Dated 9 (dies III/b). Fine, toned. Rare, nine noted by Newell, five additional in Pella, two in CoinArchives.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.