Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 518. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $305. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Kolophon. Circa 310-300 BC. Æ Tetrachalkon (5.78 g, 1h). Dimokrates, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo right / Tripod; [Δ]HMOKPATHΣ to left, KOΛΦΩ (sic) to right. Kinns 98-9 var. (magistrate & ethnic); Milne, Colophon 92-3 var. (same); SNG Copenhagen 147 var. (same); SNG München 543 var. (same). Good VF, black patina. Extremely rare issue, only four examples recorded by Kinns for all magistrates.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.

See Kinns 87 for a contemporary diobol with this magistrate.