CNG 108, Lot: 187. Estimate $500. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

WESTERN ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. Mid-late 3rd century BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.99 g, 11h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; no control marks. Price –; Mektipini 725; Seyrig, Trésors, pl. 10, 5.21. Near EF, lightly toned, flan crack. Very rare.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 16 January 2004.

There are numerous Alexander type issues without any control marks from disparate mints issued from the late 4th-1st centuries BC. Their mint of issue and dating can only be presumed from a careful comparison with other issues whose attributions are known. The present piece has a stylistic affinity to a variety of civic Alexander issues in Ionia and Caria in the mid-late 3rd century. Interestingly, Price appears to include only a handful of these unmarked issues, leaving out many that were even present in references he consulted.