Outstanding Magnesia ad Maeandrum Tetradrachm
IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 150-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.70 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Erasippos, son of Aristeos, “magistrate”. Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder / Apollo Delphios standing left, left elbow resting on tall tripod behind, holding in right hand a branch tied with fillet; EPAΣIΠΠOΣ APIΣTEOY to left, MAΓNHTΩN to right, meander pattern below; all within laurel wreath. Jones dies 28/b; SNG von Aulock 2042; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 37. Attractively toned with underlying luster, a hint of die wear on obverse. Superb EF. Struck from a masterfully engraved pair of dies.
Ex Kleinkunst Collection (Leu Numsimatik 6, 23 October 2020), lot 192; Sotheby’s (3 May 1984), lot 117.
