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420, Lot: 226. Estimate $200.
Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Kalchedon. Circa 260-220 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.04 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram and K in left field, Θ below throne, grain ear in exergue. Price 935 (Kallatis); Türkoğlu –; HGC 7, 521. Near VF, a few small obverse die breaks.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 296 (13 February 2013), lot 17.

For the reattribution of this issue to Kalchedon, see U. Wartenberg & J.H. Kagan, “Some comments on a new hoard from the Balkan area” in Travaux Le Rider, p. 405.