454, Lot: 67. Estimate $200. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.11 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Sidon mint. Struck under Laomedon. Dated CE 12 (322/1 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; M (date) in left field, ΣI below throne. Price 3498; Newell, Dated 36, obv. die XV; DCA 877. Lightly toned, slightly off center on obverse, light graffito in field on reverse. VF.

See A. DeShazo, “The Alexander Type Coinage of Sidon” and “Two Chronological Coin Sequences at Sideon” (both forthcoming), for an analysis of this series, proposing a few changes on certain aspects. The articles are currently available at https://www.academia.edu/36978032/The_Alexander_Type_Coinage_of_Sidon and https://www.academia.edu/40408074/The_Two_Chronological_Coin_Sequences_at_Sidon