Civic Issues of Alexander Type

CNG 84, Lot: 244. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PAPHLAGONIA, Sinope. Circa 230-200 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.09 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, E and akrostolion above ΣI. Price 1254A; Newell, Sinope -. EF, lightly toned, underlying luster. Rare.

From the Tuck Pittman Collection. Ex Collection C.P.A (Classical Numismatic Group 78, 14 May 2008), lot 369.