Watch List notes:

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 150-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.69 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Erasippos, son of Aristeos, "magistrate". Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder / Apollo Delphios standing left, left elbow resting on tall tripod behind, holding in right hand a branch tied with fillet; EPAΣIΠΠOΣ APIΣTEOY to left, MAΓNHTΩN to right, meander pattern below; all within laurel wreath. Jones obv. die 26; SNG von Aulock 2042; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG München 601; BMC 37; Hunterian 7 (same obv. die). Superb EF, toned. Struck from fine style dies of high relief.


Ex Numismatica Genevensis SA V (3 December 2008), lot 117.