CNG 96, Lot: 457. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Smyrna. Circa 150-143 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.63 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Metrodoros, magistrate. Turreted head of Tyche right / Ethnic and magistrate’s monogram within laurel wreath. Milne, Silver 5a corr. (monogram), obv. die D; Milne, Autonomous 165a corr. (same); SNG Copenhagen –; SNG von Aulock 2162 var. (same obv. die, different monogram); SNG Fitzwilliam 4575; Boston MFA 1933 = Warren 1129 (same obv. die). EF, toned, minor porosity, small nick on obverse, faint die break on reverse.