427, Lot: 121. Estimate $200. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.01 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Sidon mint. Struck under Laomedon. Dated RY 12 of Abdalonymos (322/1 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; M (date) in left field, ΣI below throne. Price 3498; Newell, Dated 36, obv. die XV; DCA 877. VF, toned, slight roughness, some smoothing in fields on reverse.

See A. DeShazo, “The Alexander Type Coinage of Sidon” in JONS 233 (forthcoming), for an analysis of this series, proposing a few changes on certain aspects. The article is currently available at https://www.academia.edu/36978032/The_Alexander_Type_Coinage_of_Sidon