424, Lot: 223. Estimate $150. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off IONIA, Chios. Circa 270-220 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30.5mm, 16.80 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, sphinx seated right above EY; monogram below throne. Bauslaugh, Posthumous, Series 25, dies 35/70; Price 2356; HGC 6, 1132; SNG Copenhagen Supp. 144 (same dies). VF, lightly toned, slight roughness, a few minor deposits and marks. Very rare, two noted by Bauslaugh (including the one in Pella and the Mektipini piece noted by Price), one in CoinArchives.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 20 November 2003.