97, Lot: 45. Estimate $75. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Smyrna. After 190 BC. Æ 20mm (9.00 gm). Hippias, the son of Artemidoros, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo right / Homer seated left, holding scroll and touching chin; transverse sceptre behind; IPPIAS [AR]TEMIDW[ROU] (magistrate). BMC Ionia pg. 246 101 var. (magistrate); SNG Copenhagen 1165; SNG von Aulock 2167 var. (magistrate). Choice VF, black-green patina with some light orange encrustation.