427, Lot: 125. Estimate $300. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.86 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Tyre mint. Struck under Laomedon. Dated RY 29 of ‘Ozmilk (321/0 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, -|O (Phoenician ‘K = ‘Ozmilk [king of Tyre]) above ||| ||| ||| = (date [29 in Phoenician]). Price 3274A corr. (date below name; Ake); Newell, Dated 31, obv. die XXIV; DCA 737. Good VF, slight roughness in spots, some die wear on obverse, a couple marks.

See A. DeShazo, “The Satrapal and Alexander Coinage of Tyre” in JONS 233 (forthcoming), for an analysis of this series, which places the present issue in 319/8 BC. The article is currently available at https://www.academia.edu/36979096/The_Satrapal_and_Alexander_Coinage_of_Tyre