439, Lot: 26. Estimate $150. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AR Tetradrachm (2525.5mm, 16.74 g, 12h). In the name of Alexander III. Tyre mint. Struck under Laomedon. Dated RY 28 of ‘Ozmilk (322/1 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, -|O (Phoenician ‘K = ‘Ozmilk [king of Tyre]) above [||] ||| ||| = (date [28 in Phoenician]); Phoenician A below throne. Price 3272 (Ake); Newell, Dated 29, obv. die XXIII; DCA 737. VF, toned, porous.

See A. DeShazo, “The Satrapal and Alexander Coinage of Tyre, Revised” (forthcoming), for an analysis of this series, which places the present issue in 321/0 BC. The article is currently available at https://www.academia.edu/38278193/Dated_Satrapal_and_Alexander_Coinage_of_Tyre.pdf