CNG 100, Lot: 1497. Estimate $500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Antioch ad Maeandrum. Mid 2nd century BC. AR Drachm (15mm, 3.80 g, 1h). Stephanophoric type. Diotrephes, “magistrate for the fourth time”. Laureate head of Apollo right; bow and quiver behind / Zebu bull lying left on maeander pattern; ANTIOXEΩN above, ΔIOTPEΦHΣ/TO TETAP/TON in three lines below; all within wreath. Cf. A. Löbbecke, “Griechische Münzen aus meiner Sammlung. II.” in ZfN XII (1885), p. 322, 1 (earlier issue with same magistrate [probably his first instance in office]); cf. Lanz 125, lot 382 (tetradrachm from this magistrate, in his third instance in office]); otherwise unpublished. VF, toned. Extremely rare, only one coin of this stephanophoric type, but from another magistrate, in CoinArchives.