423, Lot: 164. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 215-200 BC. AR Tetradrachm (3130mm, 16.85 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 1704; HGC 6, 1046 (same obv. die as illustration). VF, dark iridescent tone, small flan flaw on obverse. Rare.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Spink America (6 December 1999), lot 518.