Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 265. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $1150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Smyrna. Circa 155-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.57 g, 12h). Menekrates, magistrate. Turreted head of Tyche right / Monogram below ethnic; all within wreath. Milne, Silver, 3 (obv. die A); SNG Copenhagen -; BMC Ionia 4 (same obv. die). Good VF, minor porosity, die flaw on obverse, die shift on reverse. ($1500)