Watch List notes:

ISLANDS off IONIA, Chios. Circa 210-190 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 17.03 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 sphinx seated left; monogram below throne. Bauslaugh, Posthumous, Series 48A, dies 56/125 corr. (rev. die 125 = 124); Price 2387; HGC 6, 1133; Mektipini 339 (same dies). Good VF, lightly toned. Very rare, only two examples cited by Bauslaugh (including the one piece in Pella), four in CoinArchives.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Spink 159 (11 July 2002), lot 912.