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CNG 99, Lot: 194. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TROAS, Alexandreia. Circa 171-66/5 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34mm, 16.85 g, 11h). Dated CY 173 (circa 128 BC). Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath / Apollo Smintheos standing right, holding phiale in right hand, bow and arrow in left; monogram to inner left, POΓ (date) to inner right; AΠOΛΛONOΣ ZMIΘEΩΣ at sides, AΛEΞANΔPEΩN/AΠOΛΛΩNIΔOY in two lines in exergue. Bellinger A148 var. (date [year 183]); DCA 365 var. (unlisted date). Good VF, dark toning, a few marks, die break on obverse. Well struck. Unpublished date in very rare series.