Greek Silver & Bronze Coins

Lot 4652    Session 16 (9.30am Friday 23rd November)    Greek Silver & Bronze Coins

Estimate $900
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $660

IONIA, Magnesia on the Maeander, (after 165 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (16.76 g), obv. diademed bust of Artemis to right with bow and quiver at shoulder, rev. Apollo standing to left on meander pattern, holding branch tied with fillets, and resting left elbow on tall tripod surmounted by quiver, to left **MA GNHTWN*, to right **APOLLODWROS* and **KALLIKRATOU*, all within laurel wreath, (cf.S.4485, Jones [ANSMN 24], [p.101], Nos.4b [same obverse die], Hunter 8 [p.347], Pozzi 2463). Lightly toned, golden hue on reverse, weak at neck of obverse, otherwise extremely fine and rare.

Ex Dr V.J.A. Flynn Collection and The New York Sale XXXIV, 6 January 2015 (lot 154), with their ticket, previously from Noble Numismatics Sale 99 (lot 3685) and Sale 78 (lot 5037); then from Classical Numismatic Group, Mail Bid Sale 63, 21 May 2003, (lot 489), and earlier from Empire Coins, New York Auction Sale No.7, May 2, 1987 (lot 58, illustrated, $1500).
Some 17 examples of this type were known to Jones for this pair of Magistrates.