Triton XVIII, Lot: 611. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 150-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.42 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Erasippos, son of Aristeos, “magistrate”. Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder / Apollo Delphios standing left, left elbow resting on tall tripod behind, holding in right hand a branch tied with fillet; EPAΣIΠΠOΣ APIΣTEOY to left, MAΓNHTΩN to right, meander pattern below; all within laurel wreath. Jones dies 27/e; SNG von Aulock 2042; SNG Berry 1067 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 37; Hermitage Sale II 1271 (same obv. die); McClean 8181; Pozzi 2461. EF, toned, a few light marks under tone in field on obverse.

From the Patrick H. James Collection. Ex Collection C.P.A. (Classical Numismatic Group 78, 14 May 2008), lot 787; Künker 77 (1 October 2002), lot 172.