Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 413. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm. Sidon mint. Dated CY 4 (306/5 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, D (date) above M; SI below throne. Price 3526. VF.

The new civic year dating in Sidon is relative to the arrival of Antigonos I Monophthalmos in Phoenicia (CY 1 = 315/4 BC; cf. Price pp. 406-7).