Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 294. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.08 g, 7h). ‘Amphipolis’ mint. Struck under Kassander, Philip IV, or Alexander (son of Kassander), circa 315-294 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, L above torch; monogram below throne. Price 486 var. (name not misspelled). Good VF, toned.

From the Robert A. Weimer Collection.

Alexander’s name is misspelled LAEXANDROU on the die used for this coin.