Watch List notes:

ISLANDS off IONIA, Chios. Circa 190-165 BC. AR Tetradrachm (36mm, 17.10 g, 12h). Philokrates, magistrate. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, AP above sphinx seated left on horizontal amphora; ΦIΛOKPATHΣ in exergue. Bauslaugh, Posthumous, Series 77–8 var. (unlisted magistrate, but obv. die 89); Price 2430–1 var. (magistrate); HGC 6, 1139 var. (unlisted magistrate). Good VF, toned. Unique example with this magistrate.


From the collection of Will Gordon.