Rare Alexander from Sikyon

CNG 103, Lot: 179. Estimate $300. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SIKYONIA, Sikyon. Circa 225-215 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 17.07 g, 11h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, dove flying left above youth standing left, holding tainia overhead; monogram below throne. Noe, Sicyon 54.1 (A93/P176); Price 723; HGC 5, 254. VF, toned, struck with worn obverse die. Very rare, three noted by Noe (all from a single die pair), including the one example in Pella database, none in CoinArchives, none in ANS photofile.

From the collection of Will Gordon.