Two Extremely Rare Alexanders from Klazomenai

CNG 102, Lot: 451. Estimate $500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Klazomenai. Circa 240-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.82 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, forepart of winged boar left above coiled serpent. Meadows, Hellenistic 1743B (same dies as illustration); Price –; Hersh –; CNG E-322, lot 60 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned. Extremely rare variety from a very rare mint for Alexanders, one of three known.