177, Lot: 111. Estimate $100. Sold for $1049. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Teos. Circa 204-190 BC. AR Diobol (10mm, 0.78 g). Head of young Dionysos right, wearing ivy-wreath / Grape bunch. Unpublished. Good VF, darkly toned, light marks. Extremely rare.

This coin appears to be from the same issue as Kinns’ Period III hemidrachms of Teos (See P. Kinns, Studies in the coinage of Ionia: Erythrae, Teos, Lebedus, Colophon, c. 400-30 BC).