369, Lot: 235. Estimate $200. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Arados. Circa 246/5-168/7 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.95 g, 11h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Uncertain date. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; palm tree in left field, AP monogram (civic monogram) below throne, [date in exergue]. Cf. Duyrat 1206–18 and 1221–3 (obv die D17); cf. Price 3381–3; DCA 771. VF, a few light deposits.

Duyrat’s obverse 17 was used to strike coins of years 41–43 (219/8–217/6 BC).