Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 788. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $480. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great'. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.17 g, 5h). Uncertain mint in western Asia Minor. Struck under Demetrios I Poliorketes, circa 310-275 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / ALEXANDROU, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, head of ram left. Price 835; Newell 63 (obv. die LVI); SNG München -; cf. SNG Alpha Bank 947 (issue in name of Demetrios; same obv. die); Meydancikkale 1812-1813 (same obv. die). Near EF, slight die shift on obverse. ($500)

See lot 828, below for this same obverse die used on an Alexandrine issue in the name of Demetrios. Although Price attributed this issue to an uncertain mint in Greece or Macedon, its style and die links to issues of Demetrios I Poliorketes (cf. Newell 63 and 64) strongly argue for a mint in western Asia Minor, which is the location chosen by the authors of Meydancikkale. Also, the recorded hoards with specimens of this type, and those with the same obverse die in the name of Demetrios, have been found in Asia Minor.