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Referenced by Ellis-Evans

5743301. SOLD $5750

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Mid 140s BC. AR Tetradrachm (32.5mm, 16.93 g, 11h). Stephanophoric type. Pausanias, son of Pausanias, "magistrate”. Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder / Apollo, nude, standing left, holding branch tied with fillet in right hand, left elbow resting on tall tripod to right; ΠAYΣANIAΣ/ΠAYΣANIOY in two lines to right, MAΓNHTΩN to left, maeander pattern below; all within laurel wreath. Ellis-Evans, Wreathed, dies 9/PP19 (2) (this coin); Jones dies 8/b. In NGC encapsulation 6676692-001, graded AU, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 5/5.


Ex Leu 91 (10 May 2004), lot 158; Sotheby’s Geneva (12 November 1990), lot 28.