Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 333. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.07 g, 9h). Corinth mint. Struck circa 310-290 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, dolphin downward; NO below throne. Price 858 corr. (Corinth, not Uncertain Greece). Good VF, lustrous, some die rust on obverse.

Although Price assigns this issue to the large dolphin group in his "uncertain mint in Greece or Macedon," it certainly belongs at Corinth with the early NO issues (cf. Price issues 676, 677, and 679). The style of issue 858 is dissimilar to the other dolphin types at the uncertain mint, but is very similar to the issues at Corinth, particularly the inclusion of the footstool. Perhaps most convincing, a large number of these coins were found in a recent hoard that has numerous Corinthian issues and very few issues of the “uncertain mint” dolphin group.