Classical Numismatic Group, LLC - Auction 121 - Session 2 . 346
IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 150-140 BC. AR Oktobol (22mm, 5.53 g, 1h). Attic standard. Dionysios, son of Demetrios, "magistrate". Warrior, holding couched lance, on horse rearing right; Δ (mark of value [4 diobols = oktobol]) below / Bull butting left; MAΓNHTΩN above, ΔIONYΣIΟΣ/ΔHMHTPIOY in two lines in exergue; all within circular maeander pattern border. Kinns, Two 15 (O13/R3) = Bement 1458 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen 825 = Rhousopoulos 3718. Toned. Superb EF. Struck on a broad flan. Ex Sheikh Saud Al-Thani Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 126, 17 November 2021), lot 228; Nomos 5 (25 October 2011), lot 185; Gemini I (11 January 2005), lot 162; Lanz 102 (28 May 2001), lot 267; John Work Garrett/Johns Hopkins University Collection (Part II, 16 October 1984), lot 266, purchased from Chapman, 24 March 1925; Clarence S. Bement Collection (Part II, Naville VII, 23 June 1924), lot 1458; Theodor Prowe Collection (Egger XLVI, 11 May 1914), lot 949; J. Hirsch XVI (5 December 1906), lot 636.