420, Lot: 19. Estimate $150. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Mesambria. Circa 225-175 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.43 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; Corinthian helmet in left field, Λ-A below throne. Karayotov I 70 (O23/R79); Callataÿ Group 1, dies D1/R1; Price 1027; HGC 3, 1567. VF, lightly toned, slightly worn dies, minor die shift on obverse. Very rare, five noted by Karayotov (including the two in Pella), two (correctly attributed) in CoinArchives.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from David Hay, December 1994.