Unpublished Civic Issue of Alexander Type

CNG 87, Lot: 504. Estimate $500. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AEOLIS, Myrina. Circa 215-190 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.12 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, HP monogram above amphora. Unpublished. Good VF, toned, a little porosity on reverse. From the very rare early civic Alexander series at Myrina.