418, Lot: 247. Estimate $300. Sold for $1555. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TROAS, Alexandreia. Circa 280-275 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.77 g, 2h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, horse grazing left above thounderbolt; monogram below throne. Bellinger A25 var. (same obv. die, but different monogram); Price 1588 var. (monogram). Good VF. Extremely rare, unpublished with this monogram.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, December 1997.