418, Lot: 46. Estimate $100. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.13 g, 12h). Amphipolis mint. Struck under Antipater, circa 332-326 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; rudder in left field. Price 10; Troxell, Studies, Issue A5. VF, test cut on obverse. Very rare, five in Pella (correctly attributed), none in CoinArchives.

Not to be confused with the more common variety with the rudder inverted (Price 11).