Magnesia (BC 350-325) Drachm

ca 350-325 BC. AR Drachm (3.10g, 10h) Horseman riding right, wearing helmet, chlamys and cuirass, and holding a spear in his right hand / Bull butting to right; ear of barley to right. Extremely rare. Beautifully toned. Extremely fine.

From the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, II, Sotheby & Co. Zurich, 4 April 1973, 568, J. Ward and the Earl of Ashburnham, SWH 6 May 1896, 183. While Magnesia struck a wide variety of denominations in its horseman/bull series, Rhodian weight drachms seem to be inordinately rare: only ten are known, all of different magistrates.

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Filename:	image00275.jpg
City/Mint name:	Magnesia ad Maeander
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Keywords:	silver / classical
References:	Kinns, Two Studies in the Silver Coinage of Magnesia on the Maeander, KME, p. 137, n. 4 (this coin cited); Waddington 1717 var. (hemidrachm); Ward 670 (this coin)
Valuation:	Leu Auc. 81 (5/2001), lot 275 (CHF 1,500 ($866) + comm)
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