CNG 99, Lot: 202. Estimate $500. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AEOLIS, Temnos. Circa 200 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 16.77 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; oenochoe in left field. Price 1665; Mektipini 257 (same obv. die). Good VF, lightly toned, a touch of die wear and small spot of porosity on obverse. Very rare, only two in CoinArchives.

From the collection of Dr. Will Gordon.