★ Rare ★

IONIA. Ephesos. (Circa 133-88 BC)
AV stater (20mm, 8,46g)
Obv: Draped bust of Artemis right, hair drawn into knot at back of head, wearing stephane and pendant earring, bow and quiver over left shoulder
Rev: Ε-Φ, cult statue of Artemis Ephesia facing, fillet hanging from each hand, lit torch (or thymiaterion) in inner right field between statue and fillet.
G. K. Jenkins, Hellenistic Gold Coins of Ephesos, in Festschrift Akurgal, Ankara, 1987, p. 134, pl. B, 6 (BM) = R Fleuscher I, Artemis von Ephesos und der erwandte Kultstatue von Anatolien und Syrien, EPRO 35, 1973, pl. 53b (same dies); LIMC II, pl. 565, 23.
Rare