Triton XVI, Lot: 439. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AEOLIS, Aigai. Circa 160/55-150/45 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.72 g, 11h). Stephanophoric type. Head of Apollo Smintheos right, wearing laurel wreath, bow and quiver over shoulder / Zeus standing left, holding eagle in extended right hand, lotus-tipped scepter in left; monogram to left, AIΓAIEΩN to right; all within oak-wreath. SNG von Aulock 1595; SNG Copenhagen 6; SNG Ashmolean 1252; SNG München 357; Dewing 2227. Good VF, toned. Well centered on a broad flan. Very rare.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 66 (19 May 2004), lot 433.

Of all the mints to strike tetradrachms of stephanophoric type, Aigai had one of the smallest outputs, with just four obverse dies known today (cf. U. Westermark, “En tetradrachm från Aigai i Aiolis” in Festscrift Lagerqvist, pp. 471–5).