416, Lot: 37. Estimate $150. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Mesambria. Circa 125-100 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32.5mm, 15.57 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in inner left field, helmet above ΔI; ΔA below throne. Karayotov I –; Callataÿ –; Price 1070 var. (control letters in opposite positions); HGC 3, 1569. VF, lightly toned, double struck, some roughness. Probably an imitative issue.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 58 (19 September 2001), lot 234.