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Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 217. Estimate $250. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004. 
Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.86 gm). Methymna mint. Autonomous issue, struck circa 188-180 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; the poet Arion, holding lyre and riding dolphin right, above prow in left field; two monograms in exergue. Price 1695 var. (monograms); Müller 982 var. (same); Hersh, Additions -. Toned VF, well centered on a broad flan, graffiti under tone. ($250)

From the Tuck Pittman Collection. Ex Heritage 308 (8 January 2003), lot 311.