CNG 111, Lot: 238. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 150-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.92 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 17; SNG Copenhagen 844. EF, deep iridescent tone.