142, Lot: 34. Estimate $150. Sold for $309. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Ephesos. Circa 335-320 BC. AR Drachm (13mm, 2.99 g). Bee with straight wings / Quadripartite incuse divided by two broad bands, magistrate’s name KTHSW[N(?)] on horizontal band. See Pixodarus p. 197 for a hemidrachm of a similar magistrate (see below); SNG Copenhagen -; Head -. Good VF, a bit overcleaned, flan a little tight. Rare.

Kinns sites a hemidrachm with the magistrates name KTHSIOS (see Imhoof-Blumer, KM, pg. 49, 2). No photo of this coin is available for comparison. Perhaps this coin was misread by Imhoof, or perhaps the present coin is a new magistrate.