115, Lot: 78. Estimate $500. Sold for $435. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PERGAMON. Philetairos. 282-263 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.97 gm, 12h). Struck circa 269/8-263 BC. Laureate and diademed head of Philetairos right / Athena seated left, left elbow resting on sphinx; ivy leaf above knee, A on throne, bow to outer right. Westermark Group II (V.VIII/R1a); SNG France 1604 (Eumenes I); BMC Mysia 30 (Eumenes I). Good VF, recently cleaned.

Westermark attributed this issue to Eumenes I. However, a more recent analysis of hoard evidence has indicated that this coinage is actually struck during the lifetime of Philetairos, near the end of his reign, following the limited issue of tetradrachms bearing the portrait of Seleukos I (see A. Davesne & G. Le Rider, G¸lnar II. Le trésor de Meydancikkale [Paris, 1989], pp. 334-340).