CNG 102, Lot: 624. Estimate $500. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Arados. Circa 246/5-168/7 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 17.08 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Dated CY 63 (197/6 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; palm tree in left field, AP (civic) monogram below throne, ΓΞ (date) in exergue. Duyrat 1307 var. (D38/R– [unlisted rev. die, die unknown with date retrograde]); Price 3394 var. (date not retrograde); DCA 771 var. (retrograde date not listed). Near EF. Very rare date, none in CoinArchives; unpublished with date in retrograde.

Retrograde dates are not unusual for this series, but no retrograde date is previously known for year 63.