Watch List notes:

ISLANDS off CARIA, Kos. Circa 370/60-345 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 14.90 g, 5h). Herakleitos, magistrate. Bearded head of Herakles to left, wearing lion skin / Crab; KΩ[ION] above; below, club above HPAKΛEITOΣ; all in dotted square within shallow incuse square. Stefanaki, Kos I, Series V, 9th Emission, 265 = Ingvaldsen 35b = Pixodarus 15b = Hunt IV 395 (this coin); HN Online –; HGC 6, 1301; otherwise unpublished in the standard references. Toned, some roughness. Near EF. Very rare, only 11 examples noted with this magistrate.


From the San Vicente Collection. Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part IV, Sotheby's, 19 June 1991), lot 395; Pixodarus Hoard (CH IX, 421).