Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 976. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $1350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA, Northwest. Uncertain culture. 3rd century BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.02 g, 5h). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; uncertain control in left field, P below throne. A. Ronde, “Contribution à l’étude du monnayage des pseudo-alexandres des confins du golfe arabo-persique,” BSFN 58, 9 (November 2003), p. 201-2; Triton III, lot 10 (same dies). Good VF, toned, a few minor marks. Very rare.