CNG 100, Lot: 1483. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off IONIA, Samos. Circa 408/4-380/66 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 14.65 g, 6h). Demetrios, son of Antionaides, magistrate. Facing lion scalp / Forepart of bull right; above, ΔHMHPIO[Σ] ANTIΩNAIΔOΣ in two lines; laurel branch to left, ΣA below; all within shallow incuse square. Barron 150 (A75/P144); HGC 6, 1218; BMC 131 var. (name shortened). Good VF, toned, minor roughness on reverse. Extremely rare with this magistrate, only one example noted by Barron, none in CoinArchives.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection, purchased from Maison Platt, September 1980.