52, Lot: 54. Estimate $50. Sold for $87. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Ephesos. 133-67 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (12.37 gm). Dated year 66=69-68 BC. Cista mystica with serpent; all within ivy wreath / Bow-case with serpents; XC (date), two cornucopiae with grain-ear above, torch right. Kleiner, "The Dated Cistophori of Ephesus," ANSMN 18 (1972), 68; SNG Copenhagen 334. Lightly toned VF. ($50)

From the John M. McCarthy Collection