Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 232. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Ephesos. Circa early 3rd century BC. AR Octobol (5.59 gm). Attic standard. Cleole, magistrate. Diademed bust of Artemis right / EFE, bow and quiver; bee right, KLEOLE left. Head pg. 41 var. (magistrate); SNG Kayhan 278 var. (same); BMC Ionia pg. 53, 55 var. (same); SNG Copenhagen 257 var. (same); SNG von Aulock -; SNG Munich 55 var. (same). Good VF. Apparently unpublished magistrate. ($750)

In his studies of the Attic weight tetradrachms (in "Pixodarus Hoard," Coin Hoards IX) and drachms (in NumChron 1999), Kinns does not list a single example of either of these magistrates. Head does record Echeanax for the issue of Artemis/Bow and quiver octobols (BMC Ionia pg. 53, 55).