Triton XVI, Lot: 480. Estimate $2500. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Smyrna. Circa 155-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35mm, 16.22 g, 12h). Metrodoros, magistrate. Turreted head of Tyche right / ZMYP/NAIΩN and magistrate’s monogram within laurel wreath. Milne, Silver 5c, obv. die I (this coin, illustrated); Milne, Autonomous 165; SNG von Aulock 2162; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC –. Good VF, old cabinet toning, slight die shift, minor porosity, light scuff under tone on obverse. Well centered.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 66 (19 May 2004), lot 458; Walter Niggeler Collection (Part I, Leu/Münzen und Medaillen, 3 December 1965), lot 391; Merzbacher (15 November 1910), lot 708; A. Delbeke Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, 24 April 1907), lot 194.