381, Lot: 232. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Arados. Circa 246/5-168/7 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30.5mm, 16.53 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Dated CY 61 (199/8 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; palm tree in left field, AP (civic) monogram below throne, ΞA (date) in exergue. Duyrat 1299–1300 (D34/R122); Price 3391; DCA 771. VF, toned, area of weak strike on obverse, reverse slightly off center.

From the collection of Dr. Will Gordon.