CNG 108, Lot: 186. Estimate $500. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 188-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35mm, 16.29 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, monogram above kithara; Z below throne. Price 1710 corr. (monogram); HGC 6, 1047. Good VF, toned. Extremely rare, only one in Pella (in the BN, from the same rev. die), none in CoinArchives.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection.

This is reportedly the “in commerce (1982)” piece that Price refers to in his corpus. Since the BN piece was acquired from H. Seyrig, who died in 1973, and no other example is published, the present coin would appear to be the only example that could have been in commerce in 1982.