Watch List notes:

AEOLIS. Aigai. Circa 151-143 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 33 mm, 16.55 g, 12 h). Laureate head of Apollo Smintheos to right, with bow and quiver over his left shoulder. Rev. AIΓAIEΩN Zeus standing front, head to left, holding eagle in his right hand and lotus-tipped scepter in his left; in field to left, monogram; all within oak wreath. SNG Copenhagen 6 (same obverse die). SNG München 357. SNG von Aulock 1594-1595. Rare. A bold example with a particularly fine head of Apollo. Light porosity and minor areas of weakness, otherwise, about extremely fine.


From the Kleinkunst Collection, ex Sotheby's, 3 May 1984, 111.