IONIA. Magnesia ad Maeandrum (?). Circa 500-464 BC. Tetartemorion (Silver, 6 mm, 0.22 g, 10 h). Head of a rooster to right. Rev. Head of an eagle to right; below, M; all within incuse square. BMC -. Naumann E-Auction 41 (2016), 274 corr. (same dies, but M not noted). Rosen -. SNG Kayhan -. Extremely rare. A nicely toned piece of lovely early Classical style. Very fine.


The tentative attribution of this lovely issue to Magnesia is based on the single letter M on the reverse, as well as on the similarity of the eagle head on the reverse to that on the coinage of Themistokles and Archepolis (see Nomos 10 (2015), 47).