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436, Lot: 218. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 150-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.86 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Pausanias, son of Pausanias, "magistrate”. Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder / Apollo Delphios standing left, resting on tall tripod to right, holding branch tied with fillet; ΠAYΣANIAΣ ΠAYΣANIOY in two lines to left, meander pattern below; all within laurel wreath. Jones dies 16/a; SNG von Aulock 7922; SNG Copenhagen 844; du Chastel 259 (same dies); Jameson 1504. EF, deep cabinet tone, minor die break on obverse, small flat spot on reverse. Well centered and struck. High relief obverse.