Unique Issue for Magistrate Philon

363, Lot: 155. Estimate $200. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Klazomenai. Circa 240-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.31 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Philon, magistrate. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, forepart of a boar above ΦΙΛΩΝ. Price 1743 var. (magistrate); Meadows, Hellenistic –. VF, toned, some roughness. Very rare posthumous Alexander from Klazomenai, unique for this magistrate.

From the collection of Dr. Will Gordon.

Leschhorn does not record a magistrate Philon for any issue of Klazomenai until the Imperial period.