Watch List notes:

CARIA. Antioch ad Maeandrum. Circa 165-145 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 26 mm, 15.82 g, 12 h), Meleager. Laureate head of Zeus to right. Rev. ΑΝ|ΤΙΟ|ΧΕ|ΩΝ - ΜΕ|ΛΕΑ|ΓΡΟΣ Eagle, with closed wings, standing on thunderbolt to left; all within maeander border. Unpublished save for its previous auction appearance, but for the type see the tetradrachm in Paris, BMC pl. XLV, 10, and that once in the von Aulock collection, SNG von Aulock 2417 (both with other magistrates' names). Extremely rare, the second, and by far the better, example known). Well-struck and nicely toned. About extremely fine.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 207, 15 October 2012, 358.

After the Romans punished Rhodes with the loss of her mainland territories – she was thought to have been too friendly with Perseus of Macedon – the cities involved began issuing their own coinages. This piece is one of the very rare tetradrachms produced by Antioch-on-the-Maeander.