CNG 97, Lot: 299. Estimate $400. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Arados. Circa 246/5-168/7 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.00 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Dated CY 43 (217/16 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; palm tree in left field, AP (civic) monogram below throne, 43 (date in Aramaic) and ST (in Aramaic) in exergue. Duyrat 1224 (obv. die D19); Rouvier 78; Price 3383; DCA 754. Good VF, toned, a few minor marks. Very rare date, only 12 examples noted by Duyrat.