Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 343. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Ephesos. Circa 340-330 BC. AR Octobol (4.79 gm). Bust of Artemis right, wearing earring and stephane, quiver over shoulder / E-F, forepart of stag kneeling right; palm left, small bee to right; magistrate QEMISTA[GORAS]. Head pg. 46 var. (magistrate); SNG Kayhan 249 var. (same); BMC Ionia pg. 57, 78 var. (same); SNG von Aulock 1841 var. (same). Toned EF. Very pleasing Hellenistic style. A very rare issue and apparently unpublished from this magistrate. (See color enlargement on plate 8.) ($1500) 

See SNG Copenhagen 222 for a tetradrachm from this same magistrate.