Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 159. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $725. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.19 gm, 9h). 'Amphipolis' mint. Struck under Antipater (for Philip III and Alexander IV), circa 322-320 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / BAS-ILEWS ALEXANDROU, Zeus seated left, holding eagle in right hand, sceptre in left; Phrygian helmet in left field. Price 112; Troxell, Studies, Issue H2, 61; Müller 854. Near EF, toned. ($500)

From the Ronald Cohen Collection.

Troxell proposes that coins struck at 'Amphipolis' mint with the royal title are actually struck in the name of Alexander IV, not Alexander III (Troxell, Studies, pp. 96-98).