CNG 111, Lot: 241. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 150-140 BC. AR Oktobol (22mm, 5.51 g, 12h). Euphemos, son of Pausanias, “magistrate”. Warrior, holding couched lance, on horse rearing right; Δ (mark of value) below / Bull butting left; EYΦHMΟΣ ΠAYΣANΙΟΥ in two lines in exergue; all within circular maeander pattern border. Kinns,
Two 17 (O15/R5) = Naville XIII, lot 865; Triton XXII, lot 249; CNG E-439, lot 77; CNG E-436, lot 219; CNG E-431, lot 198 (all from the same dies); otherwise unpublished. EF, toned, underlying luster, light double strike on reverse. Very rare with this magistrate.