420, Lot: 252. Estimate $300. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off IONIA, Chios. Circa 270-220 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 16.85 g, 11h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, sphinx seated left above monogram; Π below throne. Bauslaugh, Posthumous, unlisted series (but obv. die 37); Price 2362 var. (monogram); HGC 6, 1132. Good VF, toned. Apparently unique with this monogram.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 727333 (August 2001).