CNG 108, Lot: 256. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYPRUS, Paphos. Nikokles. Circa 325-310/09 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.60 g, 6h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Struck circa 321-320 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin, NIKOKΛEOYΣ in tiny letters in lion’s mane (only traces visible, as usual) / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram (of Paphos) in left field, bee below throne. Zapiti & Michaelidou 14 var. (grain ear below throne); Price 3120; May, Paphos 4 (A2/P– [unlisted rev. die]); Tziambazis 11. VF, toned, a few marks, scratch on obverse. Very rare.

From the Jonathan K. Kern Collection.