422, Lot: 33. Estimate $150. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Mesambria. Circa 225-175 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32.5mm, 16.11 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedonia. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; helmet right in inner left field, ΛA below throne. Karayotov I 58 (O23/R64); Price 1029; HGC 3, 1567. VF, toned, some roughness.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from David Hay, December 1994.