CLASSICAL COINS
IONIA
MAGNESIA
Stephanephoric tetradrachm, about 160 BC. AR 16.87 g. Draped bust of Artemis r., wearing diadem, bow and quiver in the back. Rev. MAGNHTWN - PAUSANIAS / EUFHMOU Apollo, nude, standing l., leaning on large tripod, holding filleted laurel branch in his lowered r. hand; in exergue, maeander pattern; whole in laurel wreath. SNG Berry 1069. N.F. Jones, The autonomous wreathed Tetradrachms of Magnesia-on-Maeander, ANS MN 24 (1979),101,7a ( this specimen ).
Rare issue. Extremely fine Provenance: Auction Münzenhandlung K. Kress, München 158 (1973), 415.