CNG 99, Lot: 45. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Apollonia Pontika. Mid 4th century BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 17.06 g, 6h). Antilochos, magistrate. Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath / Upright anchor; A and crayfish flanking, [A]NTIΛOXOΣ to left; all within shallow incuse square. Topalov, Apollonia 50 (unlisted magistrate, but cf. p. 375, 13.3 for same obv. die on tetradrachm of different magistrate); SNG BM Black Sea 165 var. (magistrate); Helios 7, lot 10 var. (same obv. die, different magistrate); G. Hirsch 296, lot 1617 var. (same obv. die, different magistrate). Good VF, lightly toned, minor flan flaw on neck. Very rare, unpublished with this magistrate.

The obverse die used for this coin was combined with reverses of four different magistrates: Antilochos, Diogenes, Tharsynon, and Zopyros.