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CNG 84, Lot: 605. Estimate $500.
Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Kalchedon. Circa 260-220 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.89 g, 2h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in left field, civic monogram below throne. Price 918 (Callatis). EF, very lightly toned.


From the Patrick H.C. Tan Collection.

For reattribution of this, and many other issues Price assigned to Callatis, see U. Wartenberg & J. Kagan, “Some comments on a new hoard from the Balkan area” in Travaux Le Rider.