Ira and Larry Goldberg Auctioneers
Auction 96 14-15 February 2017
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Ionia, Magnesia on the Maeander. Silver Tetradrachm (16.78 g), ca. 160-150 BC. Pausanias, son of Pausanios, magistrate. Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver at shoulder. Reverse: MAΓNHTΩN, Apollo Delphios standing facing, head left, holding branch tied with fillet and leaning against tall tripod behind; in inner left field, magistrate's name: ΠAYZANIAΣ ΠAYΣANIOY in two lines; below, meander pattern; all within laurel wreath. Jones dies 13/a; SNG Lockett 2830 (same dies). Lightly toned. Superb Extremely Fine. Estimate Value $1,000 - 1,500
From The Herbert & Aphrodite Rubin Collection; Private purchase from Harlan J. Berk in the 1980s, includes his ticket.
This coin belongs to the larger group of so-called "wreath-bearing" coinages of Western Asia Minor struck in the mid-second century BC. Based on finds and the fact that the Attalid kingdom, to which most of the issuing cities belonged, had already introduced the lighter cistophoric standard in its territory, it has been suggested that the "wreath-bearing" coinages were produced in large part to aid the Seleukid pretender Alexander I Balas who is known to have had Attalid support.
From The Herbert & Aphrodite Rubin Collection; Private purchase from Harlan J. Berk in the 1980s, includes his ticket.
This coin belongs to the larger group of so-called "wreath-bearing" coinages of Western Asia Minor struck in the mid-second century BC. Based on finds and the fact that the Attalid kingdom, to which most of the issuing cities belonged, had already introduced the lighter cistophoric standard in its territory, it has been suggested that the "wreath-bearing" coinages were produced in large part to aid the Seleukid pretender Alexander I Balas who is known to have had Attalid support.