419, Lot: 192. Estimate $300. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off IONIA, Chios. Circa 190-165 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34mm, 16.89 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Eukles, magistrate. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, ΠO above sphinx seated left on horizontal amphora; EYKΛHΣ in exergue. Bauslaugh, Posthumous, Series 68, dies 80/– (unlisted rev. die); Price 2421; HGC 6, 1139. VF, lightly toned. Very rare, four noted by Bauslaugh (the same four in Pella), none in CoinArchives, two in the Demetrios I hoard (CH X, 301), one in the Gaziantep hoard (CH X, 308).

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Tuck Pittman Collection; Noble 76 (27 July 2004), lot 3187.

It is possible that this coin is one of the two pieces in the Demetrios I hoard, which came on the market in 2003.