Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 458. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Smyrna. Circa 155-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.22 gm). Metrodoros, magistrate. Turreted head of Tyche right / Ethnic in two lines, monogram (magistrate) below; all within wreath. Milne, Smyrna, pg. 275, 5c (this coin); BMC Ionia pg. 237, 4 var. (monogram); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 2162. Toned, good VF, slightly double struck, obverse scrape under tone, well centered, light porosity. ($2500)

Ex Walter Niggeler Collection (Leu/Münzen und Medaillen, 3-4 December 1965), lot 391; Merzbacher (15 November 1910), lot 708; A. Delbeke Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, 24-25 April 1907), lot 194.