Unpublished Stephanophoric Drachm

CNG 99, Lot: 193. Estimate $1000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TROAS, Abydos. Circa 80-70 BC. AR Drachm (15.5mm, 3.81 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Iphiades, magistrate. Draped bust of Artemis right, wearing stephanos, bow and quiver over shoulder / Eagle, wings spread, standing right; ABY above, B (date?) to right, IΦIAΔOY below; all within wreath. Cf. Callataÿ, Abydos, p. 88 for this magistrate on stephanophoric tetradrachms; otherwise unpublished. Near EF, toned. Unique, the first known example of a stephanophoric drachm from Abydos.