Unpublished Archepolis Tetartemorion

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 298. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $1040. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Archepolis(?). Circa 459 BC. AR Tetartemorion (0.23 g, 9h). Bearded male head right, wearing laurel wreath / Eagle flying right within linear square in incuse square. Cf. Hauck & Aufhäuser 18, 207 (eagle flying left, A below). VF, minor porosity. Apparently unpublished.

For similar trihemiobols of Archepolis, but eagle left with ethnic, cf. Nollé & Wenninger A 2a = Gorny & Mosch 102, 254 and Triton V, 1425.