Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 172. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.02 gm, 12h). Smyrna mint. Civic issue, struck circa 220-200 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / ALEXANDROU, Zeus seated left, holding eagle in right hand, sceptre in left; in left field, head of Tyche left above monogram. Price 2247-2258 var. (different monogram); Hersh, Additions -; Müller 992-994 var. (same). Superb EF. Unpublished variety from a rare mint. ($1000)

The obverse dies used to strike the plate coin for Price 2249, Mektepini 293 (unlisted by Price), and the present coin appear to have been engraved by the same hand.