151, Lot: 33. Estimate $200. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 16.52 g, 1h). Ake mint. Dated CY 9 (307/6 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; ||| ||| -| O above ||| (date) in left field. Price 3299. VF, areas of corrosion, scratches.

Beginning in 308/7 BC, the dates on the tetradrachms of Ake were changed to a new era based on the arrival date of Antigonos I Monophthalmos in Phoenicia (CY 1 = 315/4 BC; cf. Price pp. 406-7).