421, Lot: 166. Estimate $250. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Miletos. Circa 210-190/70 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35mm, 16.54 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, lion standing left, head right, above MI (civic) monogram; ΛE and ΦΛ monograms vertically to inner right. Marcellesi 43; Price 2193 corr. var. (ΛE monogram, not E; monogram oriented horizontally); Demetrius I Hoard 280 (this coin). VF, toned, minor double strike on reverse. Extremely rare variety, the only example published.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Tuck Pittman Collection; Noble 77 (24 November 2004), lot 3126; Demetrius I Hoard (CH X, 301), no. 280.