CNG 106, Lot: 328. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AEOLIS, Myrina. Circa 160-143 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.45 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Laureate head of Apollo right / Apollo Grynios standing right, holding branch and phiale; three monograms to left, omphalos and amphora at feet; all within laurel wreath. Sacks Issue 42 var. (order of monograms). EF, toned, some weakness of strike on reverse. Unpublished variety, very rare thus.

This new variety should fall between Sacks’ issues 42 and 43. While it contains the same monograms of issue 42, the obverse die used on it was likely engraved by the same hand that engraved obverse die 81, the first die used in issue 43.