Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 334. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.13 g, 12h). Uncertain mint in the Peloponnese. Struck circa 300-280 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; F in left field; monogram below throne. Price 763. Good VF.

Price dated this issue to circa 280-circa 250 BC, but a number of specimens with light wear have been found in a hoard buried circa 282/1 BC.