Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 198. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.25 gm). Corinth mint. Social War issue, struck circa 220-215 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; throne back with Nikai; ornate trident-head above monogram in left field, PO below throne. Price 698; Jameson 989 (same obverse die); Müller -. Lustrous EF, reverse slightly double struck. ($500)

From the Tuck Pittman Collection. Ex Hirsch 223 (26-28 September 2002), lot 1535.

Price believes this issue may be associated with the payment Corinth made to the troops of Philip V in 218 BC, during the Social War.