418, Lot: 53. Estimate $150. 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, 14.75 g, 12h). Amphipolis mint. Struck under Antipater, circa 325-323/2 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; to left, cock standing left. Price 79; Troxell, Studies, Issue E3; ANS 1944.100.28043 (same dies). VF, toned, bumps on edge, probably from prior mount. Unusually low-weight specimen, no indication of being fourrée or modern transfer die forgery.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Münz Zentrum 71 (3 June 1991), lot 132.