Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 180. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.23 gm, 7h). Myriandros or Issos mint. Lifetime issue, struck circa 325-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, monogram above club in wreath and globule; monogram below throne. Price 3231 (same dies as plate coin). Good VF, attractive cabinet toning. ($400)

Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXIV (9 December 1992), lot 214.

See J.D. Bing, "Reattribution of the "Myriandrus" Alexanders: the Case for Issus" AJN 1 (1989), for an alternative attribution of the Myriandros series to the mint of Issos.