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CNG 97, Lot: 180. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Ephesos. Circa 390-325 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 14.75 g, 12h). Aristagoras, magistrate. Class I, circa 340-325 BC. Bee / Forepart of stag right, head left; palm tree to left, ΑPIΣTAΓOPΑΣ to right. Pixodarus obv. die 166 (unlisted for magistrate); SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –; Waddington 1525. VF, dark iridescent toning, some light scratches under tone. Rare.


Although Aristagoras was not previously known on a reverse used with this obverse die, O166, he is known on dies paired with both the preceding and succeeding obverses, O165 and O167.