436, Lot: 237. Estimate $500. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Arados. Circa 246/5-168/7 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30.5mm, 16.97 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Dated CY 65 (195/4 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; palm tree in left field, AP (civic) monogram below throne, EΞ (date) in exergue. Duyrat Autonomous Series I, 1322–5; Price 3398; DCA 771. Near EF, attractively toned, minor die break on obverse. Well centered on a broad flan.