CNG 108, Lot: 217. Estimate $400. Sold for $1255. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off IONIA, Chios. Circa 190-165 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32.5mm, 16.73 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Kraton, magistrate. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, ΠO above sphinx seated left on amphora; KPATΩN in exergue. Bauslaugh, Posthumous, Series 69, dies 81/206; Price 2422; HGC 6, 1139; SNG Copenhagen 754 (same dies). VF, toned, light marks. Very rare, twelve examples cited by Bauslaugh (including the nine in Pella), none in CoinArchives.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear 10 (11 February 2004), lot 125.