CNG 97, Lot: 185. Estimate $750. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 350-325 BC. AR Didrachm (19mm, 6.78 g, 11h). Diopeithes, magistrate. Warrior, holding lance, on horseback right / Bull butting left; grain ear to right, ΔIOΠEIΘHΣ below; all within circular maeander pattern. SNG von Aulock –; SNG Kayhan 410 var. (no grain ear); SNG Keckman –; SNG Copenhagen –; Gorny & Mosch 211, lot 359 (same dies); Peus 407, lot 550 (same dies). VF, toned, insignificant die break on obverse. Rare.