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422, Lot: 115. Estimate $150.
Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AR Drachm (15.5mm, 4.30 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Sardes mint. Struck under Menander, circa 323/2 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field, torch to outer right. Price 2602A; ADM I Series XIII, 181 = ANS inv. 1944.100.31147 (same dies). EF, lustrous, compact flan. Extremely rare, only one in Pella (= the one in ADM), one in CoinArchives (CNG E-417, lot 97), all from the same dies.