Triton XIX, Lot: 170. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AEOLIS, Myrina. Circa 160-143 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.05 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Laureate head of Apollo right / Apollo Grynios standing right, holding branch and phiale; monogram to left, omphalos and amphora at feet; all within laurel wreath. Sacks Issue 34, obv. die 59 (die unlisted for issue); SNG Copenhagen –; SNG von Aulock –; Hunterian 5. EF, toned. Very rare issue, only two examples recorded by Sacks, three in CoinArchives (including the present piece).

From the Leonidion Collection. Ex Astarte XX (30 October 2009), lot 32.