420, Lot: 246. Estimate $300. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Miletos. Circa 190/70-165/50 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.85 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, star above lion standing left, head right, above civic monogram; BA and (ΠAP monogram) horizontally to inner right. Price 2220 var. (monogram); Marcellesi 43; BnF Fonds général 795 var. (monogram, same obv. die); Demetrius I Hoard 296 (same dies). VF, toned. Extremely rare, only one example published (see above).

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part IV, Sotheby’s, 19 June 1991), lot 550 (part of).