CNG 99, Lot: 219. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 150-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.74 g, 1h). Stephanophoric type. Herognetos, son of Zopyrionos, “magistrate”. Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder / Apollo Delphios standing left, elbow resting on tall tripod behind, holding branch tied with fillet; HPOΓNHTOΣ ZOΠYPIΩNOΣ to left, MAΓNHTΩN to right, meander pattern below; all within laurel wreath. Jones dies 32/a; SNG von Aulock 7921; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 38. EF, toned, a couple light scratches under tone on reverse.