419, Lot: 215. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Arados. Circa 246/5-168/7 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.6mm, 16.36 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Dated CY 18 (242/1 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; palm tree in left field, AP (civic) monogram below throne, date in exergue. Duyrat 1166–73 (obv. die D6); Price 3367; DCA 771; HGC 10, 61. VF, light scratches and marks, some roughness.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 4 December 2003.