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417, Lot: 246. Estimate $100.
Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off IONIA, Chios. Circa 270-220 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.44 g, 11h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, sphinx seated left above monogram within circle; A below throne. Bauslaugh, Posthumous, Series 12B; Price 2336; HGC 6, 1132. Near VF, toned, scratches and marks, some porosity and roughness. Very rare.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 17 January 2004.