Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 575. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $1450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LAKONIA, Lakedaimon (Sparta). Circa 35-31 BC. Æ Sestertius (16.21 g, 7h). Aristokrates, magistrate. Jugate heads of the Dioskouroi right, wearing laureate pilei / LA/APICTO/KPATHC in three lines above monogram; all within wreath. Grunauer group XXI, series 2; BCD Peloponnesos 919; SNG Copenhagen 594. VF, green patina, partial flat strike. Very rare.

From the Christopher Morcom Collection.