From the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Ward Collection

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 244. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Smyrna. Circa 105-95 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.88 g, 12h). Demetrios, magistrate. Turreted head of Tyche right / ZMUR/NAIWN, Lion right; below, DHMHTRI/OS in two lines and monogram; all within wreath. Milne, Silver 28b (obv. die CC) = Ward 675 (this coin); Milne, Autonomous 276 (this coin referenced); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; BMC -. VF, old collection toning, minor die break on reverse. Very rare.

Ex John Ward Collection - Metropolitan Museum of Art (Sotheby's Zurich, 4 April 1973), lot 572.