From the Tan and Pittman Collections

CNG 97, Lot: 300. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Arados. Circa 246/5-168/7 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.66 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Dated CY 91 (169/8 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; combined civic monogram and date combined in single monogram in left field, palm tree above throne back. Duyrat 1354 var. (D48/R - [unlisted rev. die]); Rouvier –; Price 3405; DCA 771. EF, toned. Very rare, only two examples recorded by Duyrat.

From the Patrick H. C. Tan Collection. Ex Triton XV (3 January 2012), lot 1287; Tuck Pittman Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 84, 5 May 2010), lot 255; Numismatica Ars Classica 46 (2 April 2008), lot 237.

The reading of the monogram on this issue is controversial, and there is uncertainty even whether it contains a date. Duyrat favored CY 91, while Price thought it read CY 94. Cohen (DCA) accepts Duyrat’s reading with reservation. If Price is correct, the series would extend three years, to 166/5 BC.