303, Lot: 21. Estimate $200. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. temp. Antigonos I Monophthalmos – Lysimachos. Circa 310-290 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.95 g, 11h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Uncertain mint in western Asia Minor. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, monogram above cicada. Unpublished. VF, lightly toned, a hint of porosity, a few light marks. Unique with these control marks.

This coin is probably related to the drachms Price 2762–3 (for illustrations see Armenak 618–9), by virtue of style and control marks. Price 2764 may also belong to this group, but there are no illustrations of that issue. It is also probably related to a slightly earlier group of tetradrachms that has a similar style, but which have a single control symbol in the left field (cf. Seleucus I Hoard 1000–1006). The style of all these coins is very similar to issues of the Ionian coastal mints, although a precise attribution to any of them is not presently possible.