Sale: Triton X, Lot: 299. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 155-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.78 g, 12h). Euphemos, son of Pausanios, "magistrate". Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, quiver over shoulder / MAGNHTWN, Apollo Delphios standing left, elbow resting on tall tripod behind, holding branch tied with fillet; EUFHMOS PAUSANIOU to left; all within laurel wreath. Jones obv. die 18; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG München -; BMC 36; SNG Berry 1068; SNG Lewis 930-1; Weber 6003 = Locker Lampson 304. EF, light gray toning with golden hues around the devices.

From the Richard Winokur Collection. Ex Michael F. Price Collection (Stack's, 3 December 1996), lot 64.

The names appearing on these issues are not technically magistrates, but wealthy and influential citizens who financed the coinage in return for recognition on the coins (see Jones, pp. 81-90).