Ephesos, Ionia, AV stater. 131-130 BC. 19 mm, 8.57 g.

Draped bust of Artemis right, wearing stephane and pendant earring, and with quiver and bow over shoulder. 
E-F, cult image of Artemis Ephesia facing, wearing polos and 
with fillets hanging from wrists, stag and bee at her sides.

Waddington 1511 (bee overlooked); Head 2; Friedländer 219.

Very rare.

With permission of Roma Numismatics auction 7, Lot 547, March 2014.