421, Lot: 156. Estimate $200. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 215-200 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 16.65 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 kithara. Price 1699; HGC 6, 1046. Good VF, toned, some roughness and cleaning marks on reverse.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 17 January 2004. Ex “Seleucus III” Hoard (CH X, 272).