CNG 84, Lot: 464. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.86 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Antiochos, Karaichos, and Skymnos, magistrates. Struck 131/0 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right / Owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; magistrates’ names in fields, elephant to left, E on amphora, ME below; all within wreath. Thompson 397k (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 212 (same dies). EF, lustrous. Well centered and struck.

From the Patrick H.C. Tan Collection. Ex Garth Drewry Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 67, 22 September 2004), lot 585.