409, Lot: 240. Estimate $500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Methymna. Circa 215-200 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31.5mm, 16.66 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, grape bunch above Arion, holding kithara, riding dolphin right. Price 1692; HGC 6, 909. Near EF, lightly toned, light scrape on reverse.

From the collection of Dr. Will Gordon.