CNG 96, Lot: 436. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 200-196 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.90 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, monogram above head of horse right; maeander pattern in exergue. Price 2049 var. (control marks); Mektipini 382 var. (same); Triton XVII, lot 297 (same dies); CNG E-75, lot 5 (same dies). Near EF, bright surfaces, small scratch on cheek. Very rare, unpublished variety.