453, Lot: 21. Estimate $400. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.11 g, 2h). Tarsos mint. Struck under Menes or Philotas, circa 327-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; upright plow in left field, Θ below throne, two pellets above right arm. Price 3032 var. (one pellet); Newell, Tarsos 38 var. (same; obv. die XL). Toned, slightly off center. Near EF. Apparently unique and unpublished variety.