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CNG 108, Lot: 182. Estimate $500.
Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AEOLIS, Temnos. Circa 200 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 16.77 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; oenochoe in left field. Price 1665; Mektipini 257 (same obv. die). Good VF, lightly toned, a touch of die wear and small spot of porosity on obverse. Very rare, three in Pella, three in CoinArchives.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Dr. Will Gordon Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 99, 13 May 2015), lot 202.