Greece (ancient) - Ionia, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. AV Stater, Euphemos, son of Pausanias, magistrate circa 155-140 BC - Gold

Ionia, Euphemos, son of Pausanias, magistrate circa 155-140 BC Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Stater circa 155-140, AV 18. 5mm. , 8. 46g. Draped bust of Artemis r. , wearing stephane, and with bow and quiver over shoulder. Rev. Nike, holding kentron and reins, driving fast biga r. cf. Heritage 3056, 30066 (these dies) . For the magistrate Euphemos son of Pausanias and dating of the stephanophoric tetradrachms of Magnesia, cf. N. F. Jones, The Autonomous Wreathed Tetradrachms of Magnesia-on-Maeander", ANSMN 24, 1979, pp. 63-109, especially nos. 8-25; for the obverse Artemis bust type cf. B. Head, History of the Coinage of Ephesus, London 1880, p. 69, 1-7, pl. 5 and Mørkholm, Early Hellenistic Coinage, Cambridge 1991, 657 = Gulbenkian 985. Rare, Good Extremely Fine.