Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2335. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $730. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LAKONIA, Lakedaimon (Sparta). Circa 100-90/80 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.36 g, 5h). Laureate head of Herakles right / Amphora between piloi of the Dioskouroi; Λ-A across upper field, monogram to lower right; all within wreath. Grunauer group VIII, series 4, 17.4 (V10/R16 – this coin); BCD Peloponnesos 853. VF, toned, struck with worn reverse die.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale), purchased from A.H. Baldwin, May 1974.