Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 350. 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 (17.06 g, 12h). Mytilene mint. Struck circa 305-295 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; lyre in left field. Price 1697 corr. (date). Good VF.

Since the publishing of Price, a number of these coins have been found in hoards predating the death of Lysimachos, and thus this issue has been moved to the period preceding his control of Mytilene.