CNG 99, Lot: 161. Estimate $400. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PAPHLAGONIA, Sinope. Circa 275 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.03 g, 11h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; no control marks. Price 1275A (same obv. die as illustration of 1276); Newell, Sinope –; Black Sea Hoard 325–6 var. (with control marks, but same obv. die [OC]). Good VF, toned, small nick on obverse. Very rare issue, only five in CoinArchives.

From the collection of Dr. Will Gordon.