Ex BCD Collection

CNG 100, Lot: 1355. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AITOLIA, Aitolian League. Circa 239-229 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.92 g, 9h). Attic standard. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Aitolos, wearing kausia, chiton, and sheathed sword, seated right on pile of Gallic shields marked A and ΛY, holding spear upright in right hand, left hand on hilt of sword; AITΩΛΩ[N] to left, monogram to right. Tsangari 505b (D8/R44) = BCD Akarnania 433 (this coin); HGC 4, 954; SNG Copenhagen 3 (same obv. die); BMC 4–5 (same obv. die); Winterthur 1861 (same dies). Near EF, lightly toned. Good metal for issue. Very rare.

Ex BCD Collection (Münzen und Medaillen GmbH 23, 18 October 2007), lot 433 (professionally conserved since [horn silver removed]); Leu 2 (25 April 1972), lot 183.