296, Lot: 17. Estimate $200. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Kalchedon. Circa 260-220 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.04 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram and K in left field, Θ below throne, grain ear in exergue. Price 935 (Kallatis). Near VF, a few small obverse die breaks.

For the reattribution of this issue to Kalchedon, see U. Wartenberg & J.H. Kagan, “Some comments on a new hoard from the Balkan area” in Travaux Le Rider, p. 405.