Excellent Style

224, Lot: 183. Estimate $500. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PERGAMON. Attalos I. 241-197 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.98 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Struck circa 215-200 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; bee in left field. Price 1476; Kleiner, Alexander IV; SNG France -. Near EF, lightly toned. Excellent style and highly lustrous surfaces. Rare mint.

Ex Collection C.P.A. (Classical Numismatic Group 78, 14 May 2008), lot 372.