CNG 111, Lot: 237. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 150-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.83 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 to left, meander pattern below; all within laurel wreath. Jones obv. die 16; SNG Copenhagen 844. EF, light iridescent tone, die break and small nick on obverse, light double strike on reverse.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group 35 (20 September 1995), lot 287.