Extremely Rare Alexander Type

409, Lot: 213. Estimate $200. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARKADIA, Megalopolis. Circa 225-223 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.12 g, 11h). In the name and types of Alexander III. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, ΠY above syrinx above ME monogram; monogram below throne. Noe, Megalopolis, dies C/6; Price 749; HGC 5, 946. Good VF, some roughness on obverse. Extremely rare, only one example of this issue cited by Noe, which is the one example in Pella, none in CoinArchvies, none in ANS Photofile.

From the collection of Dr. Will Gordon.