CNG 93, Lot: 382. Estimate $2500. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 155-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.79 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Herognetos, son of Zopyrionos, “magistrate”. Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder / Apollo Delphios standing left, elbow resting on tall tripod behind, holding branch tied with fillet; HPOΓNHTOΣ ZOΠYPIΩNOΣ to left, MAΓNHTΩN to right, meander pattern below; all within laurel wreath. Jones dies 30/b; SNG von Aulock 7921; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 38. EF, lightly toned, a few tiny deposits. Well centered and struck.
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 59 (4 April 2011), lot 619.