Ares Numismatics

Web Auction 4  –  23 - 24 November 2019

Ares Numismatics, Web Auction 4

Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Medieval Coins and Antiquities

Part 1: Sa, 23.11.2019, from 2:00 PM CET
Part 2: Su, 24.11.2019, from 2:00 PM CET
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Description

Ionia, Magnesia ad Maeandrum AV Stater. Circa 155-140 BC. Euphemos, son of Pausanias, magistrate. Draped bust of Artemis to right, wearing stephane, and with bow and quiver over shoulder / Nike, holding kentron and reins, driving fast biga to right; MAΓNHTΩN (of the Magnesians) above, EYΦHMOΣ ΠAYΣANIOY below. Heritage 3056, 30066 (same dies); unpublished in the standard references, but for the magistrate Euphemos son of Pausanias and dating of the stephanophoric tetradrachms of Magnesia, cf. N. F. Jones, The Autonomous Wreathed Tetradrachms of Magnesia-on-Maeander", ANSMN 24, 1979, pp. 63-109, especially nos. 8-25; for the obverse Artemis bust type cf. B. Head, History of the Coinage of Ephesus, London 1880, p. 69, 1-7, pl. 5 and Mørkholm, Early Hellenistic Coinage, Cambridge 1991, 657 = Gulbenkian 985.

Condition: Very Fine

Weight: 8.42 gr
Diameter: 18.70 mm

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