Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 132. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander I. 498-454 BC. AR Oktadrachm (29.75 gm, 7h). Struck circa 480/79-470 BC. Horseman, wearing chlamys and petasos, and holding two spears in his right hand, riding horse right / ALE-XA-NDR-O around quadripartite square, all within larger incuse square. Raymond Group I 1 var. (OP1/A-; unlisted reverse die); AMNG III 29 var. (frog below horse); HPM pl. XIII, 2 (same obverse die); SNG ANS 9; SNG Alpha Bank 17. Near VF, obverse slightly double struck. Rare first inscribed issue of Alexander. ($5000)

From the William and Louise Fielder Collection.

See lot 129 for more information on early Macedonian kingdom and its coinage.