Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 735. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Alabanda. Circa 190/188-185 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.75 gm). Theokles, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo left / Pegasos springing left; monogram below, QEOKLHS magistrate. Waggoner Series 2; Boehringer, Chron. -; SNG Helsinki -; BMC Caria -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -. VF, heavily toned. Overstruck on a tetradrachm of Seleukid king Antiochos III. Unrecorded magistrate's name. ($1500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Empire Coins 7 (2 May 1987), lot 70.

Tetradrachms in the name of Alabanda are much rarer than those in the name of Antiocheia.