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Auction 100 - Part 2  7 October 2015
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Lot 1497

Estimate: 500 USD
Price realized: 1300 USD
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CARIA, Antioch ad Maeandrum. Mid 2nd century BC. AR Drachm (15mm, 3.80 g, 1h). Stephanophoric type. Diotrephes, "magistrate for the fourth time". Laureate head of Apollo right; bow and quiver behind / Zebu bull lying left on maeander pattern; ANTIOXEΩN above, ΔIOTPEΦHΣ/TO TETAP/TON in three lines below; all within wreath. Cf. A. Löbbecke, "Griechische Münzen aus meiner Sammlung. II." in ZfN XII (1885), p. 322, 1 (earlier issue with same magistrate [probably his first instance in office]); cf. Lanz 125, lot 382 (tetradrachm from this magistrate, in his third instance in office]); otherwise unpublished. VF, toned. Extremely rare, only one coin of this stephanophoric type, but from another magistrate, in CoinArchives.

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