Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 418. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 160-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.76 gm, 12h). Pausianas, son of Pausanios, magistrate. Diademed bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder / MAGNHTWN, Apollo standing left, holding branch tied with fillet in right hand, left elbow resting on tall tripod behind; PAUSANIAS PAUSANIOU on left, maeander pattern below; all within laurel wreath. Jones obv. die 8; BMC Ionia -; SNG Copenhagen 844; SNG von Aulock 7922; Jameson 1504 (same obverse die). Near EF, attractively toned. ($1000)