Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 784. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great'. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.12 g, 12h). Sardis mint. Struck under Philip III, circa 323-319 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / ALEXANDROU, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; TI in left field, ivy leaf below throne. Price 2610; ADM I Series XIV, 234 (same obv. die); SNG München -; SNG Alpha Bank -. EF, bright surfaces. Struck from a fresh obverse die. ($500)

The obverse die used on this coin was so fresh that one may discern part of a faint ring just to the right of the face of Herakles that was a guideline for the celator to engrave the portrait.