Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 731. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander I. 498-454 BC. AR Tetradrachm (13.02 g, 1h). Struck circa 460-451/0 BC. Horseman, wearing chlamys and petasos, holding two spears, riding horse right / A-L-E, forepart of goat right. U. Wartenberg, "A Small Group of Tetradrachms of Alexander I of Macedon," CH IX, 5 (this coin); Raymond 112 (TP20/A21); AMNG III pl. XXVIII, 20 (same dies); HPM pl. XIII, 17 (same dies); SNG ANS -; SNG München -; SNG Alpha Bank 74 (same dies); Boston MFA 629 (same dies). VF, toned, minor die wear on obverse. Well centered on good metal. Rare in this condition. ($2500)

From the Robert Weimer Collection. Ex "Unknown findspot" 1999 Hoard (CH IX, 9).