CNG 90, Lot: 596. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Smyrna. Circa 155-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35mm, 16.53 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Menekrates, magistrate. Turreted head of Tyche right / Ethnic and magistrate’s monogram within laurel wreath. Milne, Autonomous 141; Milne, Silver obv. die A; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 4 (same obv. die). Near EF, toned, short scratch in field on obverse, struck with worn obverse die.

From the Deyo Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (10 April 1991), lot 123.