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420, Lot: 267. Estimate $150.
Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Arados. Circa 246/5-168/7 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 16.94 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Dated CY 17 (243/2 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; palm tree in left field, AP (civic) monogram below throne, date (in Phoenician) in exergue. Duyrat 1175 (D5/R25); Price 3366; DCA 771; HGC 10, 61. VF, lightly toned, slightly off center. Very rare, only seven examples noted by Duyrat (including the one in Pella), two in CoinArchives.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 4 December 2003.