Two Extremely Rare Issues from Assos

CNG 96, Lot: 400. Estimate $300. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TROAS, Assos. Circa 210-200 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 17.02 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; boukranion in left field. Price –. Good VF, bright surfaces, a few marks. Extremely rare.

Although this coin is unpublished, its style is identical to other issues at Assos, and the facing boukranion was a civic badge used on many of Assos’ own coins in the 4th-3rd centuries BC.