406, Lot: 397. Estimate $300. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Erythrai. Circa 325-315 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.41 g, 2h). Diopeithes, magistrate. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Bow and bowcase; to upper left, owl standing right, head facing; ΔIOΠEIΘHΣ between. Kinns Period III, Group IA, 74e (O11/R10 – this coin); SNG Copenhagen 574; SNG Lockett 2819; Nanteuil 596 (all from the same dies). VF, find patina, some cleaning scratches on reverse. Rare.

Ex G. Hirsch XXXII (22 October 1962), lot 2419; Myers 6 (6 December 1973), lot 187.