CNG 102, Lot: 452. Estimate $300. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Klazomenai. Circa 205-190 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.37 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 monogram in wreath. Meadows, Hellenistic 1747A (this coin illustrated); Price –; Hersh 22 (same dies). Good VF, some minor roughness. Extremely rare variety from a very rare mint for Alexanders, one of two known.

From the Dr. Will Gordon Collection.