Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 352. Estimate $200.  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 Drachm (4.29 g, 12h). ‘Colophon’ mint. Struck under Philip III Arrhidaios, circa 322-317 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; star in left field, spear-head to outer right. Price 1759 corr. (date). EF.

For the refinement of the beginning date of coinage at Colophon, see AJN 5-6 (1993-4), pp. 35-36