436, Lot: 219. Estimate $1000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 150-140 BC. AR Oktobol (20mm, 5.52 g, 12h). Euphemos, son of Pausianias, “magistrate”. Warrior, holding couched lance in right hand, on horse rearing right; Δ (mark of value) below / Bull butting left; MAΓNHTΩN above, EYΦHMΟΣ ΠAYΣANΙΟΥ in exergue; all within circular maeander pattern border. Kinns, Two 17 (O15/R5) = Naville XIII, lot 865 (same dies); Triton XXII, lot 249 (same dies); CNG E-431, lot 198 (same dies); otherwise unpublished. EF, lightly toned, lustrous, a hint of die wear. Very rare with this magistrate, Kinns notes only the Naville example, and only the Triton and CNG E-431 coins in CoinArchives.