Sale: Nomos 5, Lot: 186. Estimate CHF1250.  Closing Date: Monday, 24 October 2011.  Sold For CHF1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 155-145 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 16.87 g 12), under the magistrate Pausanias son of Pausanios. Diademed bust of Artemis to right, with bow and quiver at her shoulder Rev. ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ / ΠΑΥΣΑΝΙΑΣ / ΠΑΥΣΑΝΙΟΥ Apollo standing left on maeander pattern, holding filleted laurel branch with his right hand and leaning his left elbow on a tripod behind him; all within laurel wreath. Jones 8. SNG Copenhagen 844. A very attractive example, tone and well struck on a broad flan. Extremely fine.

From the PGB collection.