Ex Pixodarus Hoard

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 194. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off IONIA, Samos. Circa 408/4-380/66 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.82 g, 3h). Alexandros, magistrate. Facing lion scalp / Forepart of bull right; AΛEΞANΔP[OΣ] above, laurel branch to left, Σ[A] below; all within shallow incuse square. Barron class X, - (A77/R- [unrecorded magistrate]); Pixodarus 11 = Hurter, Pixodarus, pl. 32, 20 (this coin). Good VF, toned, a few marks under tone. Extremely rare, one of two known with this magistrate.

Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CVI.10 (December 1998), no. 7223; Auctiones 18 (21 September 1989), lot 762; Pixodarus Hoard (CH 9, 421).