104, Lot: 64. Estimate $200. Sold for $212. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PERGAMON. Eumenes I. 263-241 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.84 gm). Laureate head of Philetairos right / Athena seated left, holding wreath, left arm resting on shield, spear behind; A and ivy leaf above knee, bow to right. Westermark Group IV.A (V.XXXVI/R.1, Attalos I); SNG France -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG von Post 176 (same dies). Fine, toned. Very rare variety with the A and ivy leaf above the knee, only the von Post specimen recorded by Westermark.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.