Extremely Rare Late Civic Alexander from Ephesos

418, Lot: 269. Estimate $250. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Ephesos. Circa 200-190 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.90 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, quiver above X. Price 1884; Mektipini 348. VF, toned. Extremely rare, one in Pella, none in CoinArchives.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Jonathan Kern, 15 January 2002.