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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 363. Estimate $1000. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005. 
Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PERGAMON. Eumenes I. 263-241 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.84 gm, 12h). Struck circa 255/50-241 BC. Laureate head of Philetairos right / Athena seated left, left elbow resting on sphinx; ivy leaf to outer left, A above knee, bow to outer right. Westermark Group IV A (unlisted obv. die); SNG France 1610. EF. Well-centered on a broad flan. ($1000)

See G. Le Rider, "Le tétradrachmes attalides au portrait de Philétaire" in FlorNum, for the reattibution of Westermark's Group IV A to Eumenes I.