Extremely Rare Smyrna Alexander

416, Lot: 237. Estimate $300. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Smyrna. Circa 220-200 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.78 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, turreted head of Tyche left above monogram. Milne, Autonomous, Period VIII, unlisted monogram; Price 2247–58 var. (monogram). VF, toned, minor flan crack, struck with slightly worn obverse die. Extremely rare with this monogram, possibly unique.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Noble 75 (31 March 2004), lot 1751; David Worland Collection; Kurpfalzische Münzhandlung 62 (12 June 2002), lot 37.

This coin was struck from an obverse die that was used to strike tetradrachms of Price 2249–52.