418, Lot: 27. Estimate $200. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Mesambria. Circa 225-175 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.51 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, crested Corinthian helmet right above monogram. Karayotov I 97 (O34/R93); Price 1006; HGC 3, 1567. VF, toned, minor double strike on obverse, cut on reverse.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Jonathan Kern, December 1997.