419, Lot: 59. Estimate $200. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. temp. Antigonos I Monophthalmos – Seleukos I. Circa 310-280 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.86 g, 8h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Uncertain mint (in Greece?). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; patera in left field, monogram below throne. Price 4053 = BM 1923,0203.18 (same obv. die); Meydancikkale 504. VF, lightly toned, a few light scratches on reverse. Extremely rare, one in Pella (the BM coin), none in CoinArchives, one in Meydancikkale hoard.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, December 1997.