Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 155. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Drachm (4.27 gm, 1h). Amphipolis or Aigai mint. Lifetime issue, struck under Antipater, circa 332-326 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / ALEXAN-DROU, eagle standing right on thunderbolt; horse's head in right field. Price 60; Troxell, Studies, Issue D4, 153 (same reverse die as plate coin); Müller -; SNG Copenhagen 694 (same dies). Good VF, a few spots of light encrustation on obverse. Extremely rare; five specimens noted by Troxell. ($2000)