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Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 255. Estimate $750. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004. 
Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.20 gm). Carrhae mint. Struck under Philip III, circa 323-317/6 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; monogram below throne. Price 3791; Müller 1577. Lightly toned EF. ($750)

From the Tuck Pittman Collection.

See Le Rider & Olcay, RN 1988, pg. 48, for the revised chronology of this issue (confirmed by Houghton & Lorber in SC).