Extremely Rare Alexander Didrachm

CNG 108, Lot: 59. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Didrachm (19mm, 8.59 g, 1h). Amphipolis mint. Struck under Antipater, circa 332-326 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; to left, club above monogram. Price 72; Troxell, Studies, Issue D9, pl. 7, 142 (same rev. die). Good VF, toned, slightly off center on obverse, tiny die break on reverse. Extremely rare, only one example noted by Troxell (in Berlin), none in Pella or CoinArchives.