146, Lot: 171. Estimate $150. Sold for $185. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Ephesus. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-16. Æ 36mm (24.59 g). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / EFECIWN DIK NEWK-ORWN, statue of Artemis Ephesia within octastyle temple. SNG Copenhagen 397 var.; BMC Ionia pg. 78, 233; SNG von Aulock 1888 var. Fair, dark green, almost black, patina, some light smoothing and tooling.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection; Ex Alex Malloy (15 March 1974), lot 237.