Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 166. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $1750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.28 gm, 1h). Obverse die signed by ANT-. Mesembria mint. Autonomous issue, struck circa 125-100 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin; ANT on jaw of skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, helmet above HP monogram; monogram below throne. Price 1095; Karayotov 255 (O74/R251). Good VF, darkly toned. Rare. ($400)

Karayotov notes that the obverse die by this engraver, ANT-, is the finest among the late Alexander-type tetradrachms of Mesembria.