428, Lot: 90. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.78 g, 12h). Sidon mint. Struck under Laomedon. Dated RY 13 of Abdalonymos (321/0 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; N (date) in left field, ΣI below throne. Price P169; Newell, Dated 41, obv. die XVII; DCA 878. VF, lightly toned, some light roughness.

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