Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 133. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander I. 498-454 BC. AR Tetradrachm (13.38 gm, 3h). Struck circa 480/79-470 BC. Horseman, wearing chlamys and petasos, and holding two spears in his right hand, riding horse right / Crested helmet right within incuse square, linear border, granulated background. Cf. Raymond Group I 11/12 (TP4/A5; unlisted die combination); cf. AMNG III pl. XXVIII, 27; HPM pl. XIII, 13 (same reverse die); SNG ANS 11 (same reverse die); SNG Alpha Bank -; Weber 2010 (same obverse die). VF, toned, light scuff on reverse not affecting any of the devices. ($3000)

From the William and Louise Fielder Collection. Ex Triton III (30 November - 1 December 1999), lot 371.

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