CNG 90, Lot: 607. Estimate $750. Sold for $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off IONIA, Chios. Circa 290-270 BC. AR Drachm (20mm, 4.09 g, 9h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; triskeles in left field. Bauslaugh, Posthumous –; Price –; Leu 86, lot 361, Gemini I, lot 88. EF, lightly toned, a few minor marks, struck from worn obverse die. Very rare.

Ex Nomos FPL (Winter-Spring 2011), no. 33; Triton VI (14 January 2003), lot 169.

Although this type is unpublished in the standard references, a comparison to the dies listed in Bauslaugh reveal that the style of this issue is identical to that found on the coins from Chios.