445, Lot: 848. Estimate $150. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander I. 498-454 BC. Electrotype “Oktadrachm” (33mm, 19.67 g). Unsigned British Museum electrotype by Robert Ready or his sons. Horseman, wearing chlamys and petasos, and holding two spears, standing right behind horse advancing right / Quadripartite incuse square. Head, Guide, Period II.B., –; for prototype: cf. BMC p. 140, 1. As made.

From the Johnson Family Collection, purchased from William Koonce, 2 May 1969.