Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 360. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $1650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PERGAMON. Philetairos. 282-263 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.90 gm, 12h). Struck circa 269/8-263 BC. Diademed head right / Athena seated left, left elbow resting on sphinx; ivy leaf above knee, A on throne, bow to outer right. Westermark Group II (V.III; Eumenes I); SNG France 1604 (Eumenes I); Hunterian 5 (Eumenes I; same obv. die). Good VF. ($1500)

See G. Le Rider, "Le tétradrachmes attalides au portrait de Philétaire" in FlorNum, for the reattibution of Westermark's Group II to Philetairos.