Watch List notes:

Mysia, Lampsakos, tetradrachm, c. 100-70 BC, bearded head of Priapos right, hair wreathed with ivy and with long locks of hair down neck, rev., ΛΑΜΨΑ-[Κ]ΗΝΩΝ, Apollo Kitharoidos standing right holding lyre; to left, K; to right headdress of Isis; below, magistrate's name: ΑΝΔΡΟΜΑΧΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΜΗΝΟΦΙΛΟΥ, 16.22g (A. Ellis-Evans, AJN 32, 2020, pl. 19, 16, same obverse die), some flat areas, otherwise about extremely fine and extremely rare Ex European Ambassador Collection, formed in the 1950s and 1960s. In his 2020 article entitled Late Hellenistic Tetradrachms of Parion and Lampsakos, Ellis-Evans produced a corpus of known examples of this rare coinage but this and the following lot were not known to him. The present coin is only the second known tetradrachm issued by the magistrate Andromachos son of Menophilos and is from a different, previously unknown reverse die. The other example from this magistrate (same obverse die) is in The American Numismatic Society (ANS 1972.15.1). Ellis-Evans has downdated the coinage from the second to the first part of the first century BC on the evidence of overstrikes and other considerations.
Ex European Ambassador Collection, formed in the 1950s and 1960s. In his 2020 article entitled Late Hellenistic Tetradrachms of Parion and Lampsakos, Ellis-Evans produced a corpus of known examples of this rare coinage but this and the following lot were not known to him. The present coin is only the second known tetradrachm issued by the magistrate Andromachos son of Menophilos and is from a different, previously unknown reverse die. The other example from this magistrate (same obverse die) is in The American Numismatic Society (ANS 1972.15.1). Ellis-Evans has downdated the coinage from the second to the first part of the first century BC on the evidence of overstrikes and other considerations.
(10000-15000 GBP)