Gemini, LLC Auction VI Lot 650. Auction date: 10 January 2010 Price realized: 1,650 USD + buyer's fees. Koinon of Macedonia, AE26, 13.35g. 242 AD, under Gordian III, issued in Beroea. Obv: ALEXANDROU, diademed head of Alexander III right, upward-looking, with flowing hair. Rev: KOINON MAKEDONWN B NEWKOR, OLUM/PIA above and below, Two prize crowns, each containing palm branch. Perhaps an unpublished variant of AMNG 799, (wreath under the obverse bust, not on our coin), and OLYMPIA in three lines instead of two in reverse field. AMNG 799 var. Extremely rare. According to AMNG III.1, pp. 13-14, this issue commemorates games that were held by the Macedonian Commune at Beroea in 242, probably in the presence of Gordian III, who was on his way to the Persian campaign. Only a few of the coins of the issue add the word OLYMPIA to the reverse legend. With permission of Gemini Auctions LLC, May 2010.