456, Lot: 85. Estimate $150. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Mesambria. Circa 120-100s BC. AR Tetradrachm (32.5mm, 15.57 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in inner left field, helmet above ΔI; ΔA below throne. Karayotov I –; Callataÿ –; Price 1070 var. (control letters in opposite positions); HGC 3, 1569. Lightly toned, double struck, some roughness. VF. Probably an imitative issue.

Ex Colin E. Pitchfork Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 416, 14 March 2018), lot 37; Classical Numismatic Group 58 (19 September 2001), lot 234.