420, Lot: 268. Estimate $200. Sold for $177. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Arados. Circa 246/5-168/7 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.84 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Dated CY 19 (241/0 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 (D6/R34); Price 3368; DCA 771; HGC 10, 61. VF, toned, struck off center with worn obverse die. Very rare, only six examples noted by Duyrat (including the two in Pella), none in CoinArchives.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 17 January 2004.