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294, Lot: 320. Estimate $300.
Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Kalchedon. Circa 260-220 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.03 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; ΠA monogram in left field, grain ear in exergue. Price 926 (Kallatis). Near EF, bright surfaces, a couple small edge scuffs, slight die shift.


See U. Wartenberg & J.H. Kagan, “Some Comments on a New Hoard from the Balkan Sea” in Travaux Le Rider, pp. 402–5, for the reattribution of this, and many of the other issues Price assigned to Kallatis, to Kalchedon.