Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 118. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great'. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.97 g, 12h). Uncertain mint in western Asia Minor. Struck late 4th-early 3rd century BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; club in left field. Unpublished. Superb EF, small spot of toning on reverse edge. ($1000)

Price 733 (Argos mint) is a match for this type, but all elements of style are significantly different. The overall style, and particularly that of the obverse portrait and the throne on the reverse, is most similar to the mints of Ionia. Erythrai is known to use the club as a regular symbol, but always in conjunction with a monogram. Most perplexing is the appearance of the dotted border on the reverse, which is apparently unknown among the early issues of western Asia Minor with no obverse border.