Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 166. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $825. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.91 gm, 8h). Uranopolis(?) mint. Civic issue, struck 300-290 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / ALEXANDRO[U], Zeus seated left, holding eagle in right hand, sceptre in left; long torch and monogram in left field. Price 1339; Müller -. EF with a hint of iridescent toning, small die break in field on reverse. ($750)

Price suggests that this issue may have been struck at the time of the invasion of Asia Minor by the Gallic tribes, circa 278-276 BC.