Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 326. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006.  Sold For $1025. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 155-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.98 g, 12h). Pausanias, son of Pausanias, “magistrate”. Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, quiver over shoulder / Apollo Delphios standing left, resting on tripod; PAUSANIAS PAUSANIOU on left, maeander pattern below; all within laurel wreath. Kinns, Two dies 10/a; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC 36. Superb EF, lightly toned, die break on obverse.