154, Lot: 43. Estimate $100. Sold for $74. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.11 g, 2h). Ake mint. Dated CY 10 (306/5 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; – –|O (date) in left field. Price 3301 (same obv. die as plate coin). VF, struck with worn obverse die.

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