405, Lot: 177. Estimate $300. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Ephesos. Circa 390-325 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 15.27 g, 12h). Contemporary imitation. Dion, magistrate. Bee / Forepart of stag right, head left; palm tree to left, ΔIΩN to right. Unpublished in the standard references, but for other examples recently sold, see: CNG 102, lot 445, and CNG E-403, lot 180. VF, slightly off center. Good metal.

There are no known official issues from Ephesos known with a magistrate named Dion.