Watch List notes:

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 150-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (37mm, 16.97 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 dies 30/b; SNG von Aulock 2042 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 37; McClean 8181 (same obv. die); Pozzi 2461; Seyrig, Trésors 24.37 (same dies). EF, lustrous, a couple minor edge splits. Perfectly centered on a broad flan.


From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex Rauch 97 (14 April 2015), lot 176.