409, Lot: 243. Estimate $150. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 215-200 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30.5mm, 17.01 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, monogram above kithara. Price 1701 (same obv. die as illustration); HGC 6, 1046. Good VF, toned, some roughness.

From the collection of Dr. Will Gordon.