CNG 96, Lot: 438. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 150-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.56 g, 1h). Stephanophoric type. Euphemos, son of Pausanios, "magistrate”. Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder / Apollo Delphios standing left, resting on tall tripod to right, holding branch tied with fillet; EYΦHMOΣ ΠAYΣANIOY in two lines to left, meander pattern below; all within laurel wreath. Jones obv. die 10; Waddington 1725 (same obv. die). EF, lightly toned, die break on obverse (diagnostic for die).
From the Ronald J. Hansen Collection. Ex Noble 75 (31 March 2004), lot 1821.