Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 235. Estimate $750.  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 (16.94 gm). Aspendos mint? Struck circa 200 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress; countermark: KY/ZI in two lines within laurel wreath / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; AL in left field. Price -; Hersh, Additions -; Müller -; see Price pg. 69 for countermark. Lightly toned, good VF. Very rare countermark on an unrecorded tetradrachm. ($750)

Price recorded two examples with this counterstamp, both on coins from Aspendos; Price 2899 and 2901.