419, Lot: 38. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.50 g, 7h). Contemporary forgery of Tyre mint issue dated RY 21 of ‘Ozmilk (329/8 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, -|O (Phoenician ‘K = ‘Ozmilk [king of Tyre]) and |= (21 [date] in Phoenician). For prototype, cf. Price 3252. For similar contemporary imitations, cf. Newell, Dated, pp. 63–4, pl. X, 11. VF, toned.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Wayne Woolmer, 5 December 2005. Ex Abramowitz Family Collection (Superior, 8 December 1993), lot 467.