Triton XVII, Lot: 87. Estimate $750. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

WESTERN BLACK SEA REGION, Uncertain. Circa 225-190 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.62 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles left, wearing lion skin / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, monogram above grape bunch. Unpublished. EF, lightly toned, die rust.

While most Black Sea issues with grapes are assigned to Dionysopolis, those issues exhibit a fairly consistent style. This piece does not conform to that style, and Price was reluctant to place some issues with grapes at Dionysopolis, opting instead to assign them to an uncertain mint along the Black Sea (Price 1324–6). Such an attribution is likewise appropriate for this coin.