Marathos Tetradrachm With Extremely Rare Date

CNG 97, Lot: 303. Estimate $7500. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Marathos. Circa 240/39-151/0 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.92 g, 12h). Dated CY 37 (223/2 BC). Head of Tyche right, wearing turreted crown / MAPAΘHNΩN, Marathos seated left on pile of shields, holding aphlaston in extended right hand and cradling filleted branch on left arm; 37 and ST (in Aramaic) in exergue. Duyrat, Ateliers – (D2/R– [no coins with this date]); Rouvier 821 var. (same obv. die, different date); HGC 10, 184; DCA 822 (this coin referenced); CNG 63, lot 671 (same dies); Gorny & Mosch 219, lot 291 (same dies). Good VF, deep gray toning, with golden hues around the devices, tiny die break in field on obverse, small mark in field on reverse. Extremely rare date for this very rare series, only three published.

Ex Coin Galleries (10 September 2008), lot 631; Coin Galleries (18 December 2007), lot 218; Gorny & Mosch 102 (24 May 2000), lot 327.