Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 156. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Drachm (4.24 gm, 2h). Amphipolis or Aigai mint. Lifetime issue struck under Antipater, circa 325-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / ALEXAN-DROU, eagle standing right, head left, on thunderbolt; horizontal caduceus in right field. Price 101 (this coin referenced); Troxell, Studies, Issue E9, 163; Müller -. Good VF, attractively toned, minor flan flaw on cheek, small die break on reverse. Extremely rare; five specimens noted by Troxell. ($1000)

Ex Hess-Leu (12 April 1962), lot 186.