CNG 84, Lot: 298. Estimate $750. Sold for $725. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. temp. Antigonos I Monophthalmos – Lysimachos. Circa 310-290 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.07 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Uncertain mint in western Asia Minor. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; grape bunch in left field. Price -; Seleucus I Hoard 399 (this coin). Near EF, traces of deposits.

From the Patrick H.C. Tan Collection. Ex Seleucus I Hoard (CH X [forthcoming]).

Price 29 and 1325 both have a grape bunch as their sole control mark, and in the left field. Price 29 is an early issue from Amphipolis and Price 1325 is a late 3rd century issue from the Black Sea area. This coin cannot be either, as the style is certainly too late for early Macedon, but on the other hand is far too early for such a Black Sea issue.