Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 356. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Pergamon. Anonymous Quaestor. Late 2nd-mid 1st century BC. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (12.55 gm, 8h). Cista mystica within ivy wreath / Bow case between two serpents; monogram above, Q to left, thyrsos to right. Stumpf 3 (M. Antonius M.f.); SNG France 1767 (same obv. die). VF, darkly toned, light die rust on reverse. Rare. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.

The identity of the quaestor who struck these monogram-signed issues in Pergamon and Ephesos is unknown, though he is often thought to be L. Antonius, the brother of Mark Antony (see Stumpf, pp. 14-17, and RPC I, p. 376).