Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 291. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 155-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.84 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Euphemos, son of Pausanios, "magistrate”. Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder / Apollo Delphios standing left, left elbow resting on tall tripod behind, holding in right hand a branch tied with fillet; EYΦHMOΣ ΠAYΣANIOY to left, MAΓNHTΩN to right, meander pattern below; all within laurel wreath. Jones dies 17/a; SNG Kayhan -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG München -; BMC 36; SNG Berry 1068; SNG Lewis 930-1; Weber 6003; J. Hirsch XXI (Consul Weber) 2870 (same dies). EF, attractively toned.