CNG 100, Lot: 1471. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Smyrna. Circa 150-143 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.93 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Zopy(ros)(?), magistrate. Turreted head of Tyche right / ZMYP/NAIΩN and magistrate’s monogram within laurel wreath. Milne, Autonomous 157; Milne, Silver 4, obv. die E; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –; Bement 1480; Hunterian 1 (same obv. die); de Luynes 2286; Jameson 1514; Weber 6117. EF, toned. High relief for series.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection, purchased from Antika (Lyon), May 1987.