Unpublished Drachm

CNG 87, Lot: 522. Estimate $300. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum(?). Circa 350-300 BC. AR Drachm (15mm, 3.30 g, 6h). Laureate head of Apollo right / Forepart of bull butting right; kerykeion above. Cf. SNG Kayhan 400 (trihemiobol). VF, flat strike in centers, porous. Unpublished.

The style and fabric of the coin are consistent with the coinage of Ionia in the mid-late 4th century BC. The Apollo / bull butting types are common at Magnesia, but the absence of any maeander pattern casts doubt upon an attribution to that city. There are rare gold issues with these types at Samos (cf. Barron pl. XXX, 14-5), but it is unlikely that this is a previously unknown silver issue from that mint.