313, Lot: 59. Estimate $100. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Erythrai. Circa 295-280 BC. Æ Trichalkon (15mm, 2.88 g, 3h). Iatrokles, son of Herakleotos, magistrate. Head of bearded Herakles right, wearing lionskin; c/m: bee / Bow in bow-case and club; c/m: bee. Kinns 159; SNG Copenhagen 717-23 var. (magistrate); BMC 207-8. VF, green patina, light roughness.

The countermarks applied at Erythrai are unusual in that they normally consist of both an obverse and reverse, each invariably engraved with the same type.