Lot 3490

Description

Ionia, Ephesos, (258-202 B.C.), silver didrachm, (Reduced Rhodian standard issue), (6.374 grams), obv. Diademed and draped bust of Artemis to right, wearing stephane, bow and arrow at shoulder, rev. forepart of a stag to right looking back, behind magistrate's name **[M]ANTIKRATH[S]* (Mantikrates), **E F* across field, bee to right above, (cf.S.4383, Head p.51-2 (not noted), Munsterberg (noted magistrate), BMC -, SNG Cop. -, SNG von Aulock -, SNG Munich -). Scratches and surface porosity, hoard patination, otherwise good fine and a very rare magistrate.

Ex Mediterranean Coin, Europe, February 2004.