Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2495. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARGOLIS, Epidauros. Circa 250-240 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.36 g, 7h). Reduced standard. Laureate head of Asklepios left; Θ behind / EΠ monogram within wreath. Requier, Monnayage, series 2, dies D1/R3, 195 (this coin); BCD Peloponnesos 1243-4 (same dies). Good VF, toned. Rare.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale); 1979/80 Epidaurus Hoard (CH VII, 69).

Struck from the same dies as the previous lot, but with Θ engraved over E on obverse. The weight of this coin was incorrectly recorded in the hoard report.