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419, Lot: 156. Estimate $200.
Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Kalchedon. Circa 260-220 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 16.78 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 K. Price –; Türkoğlu –; Black Sea Hoard 47–50 (same dies); HGC 7, 521. Good VF, toned, minor porosity, a few short light scratches. Very rare, four examples in the Black Sea Hoard, otherwise unpublished.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Tuck Pittman Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 66, 19 May 2004), lot 204; Freeman & Sear 6 (6 October 2000), lot 254.

See U. Wartenberg & J.H. Kagan, “Some Comments on a New Hoard from the Balkan Sea” in Travaux Le Rider, pp. 402–5, for the reattribution of many of the issues Price assigned to Kallatis, to Kalchedon.