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CNG 93, Lot: 319. Estimate $750.
Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SIKYONIA, Sikyon. Circa 225-215 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.82 g, 9h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, ΞE above youth standing left, holding tainia overhead; TM monogram below throne. Noe, Sicyon 56.1–2 var. (A94/P– [unlisted rev. die]); Price 725 var. (no xE on rev.). Good VF, toned, some light field marks, small scuff on Zeus’ shoulder. An unpublished variety of a very rare series.


Ex Tuck Pittman Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 66, 19 May 2004), lot 199; Gorny & Mosch 118 (14 October 2002), lot 1266.