Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2812. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Cyparissia. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Assarion (5.85 g, 3h). Struck AD 202-205. Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Athena standing left, holding phiale and spear; lighted altar to left, shield set on ground to right. BCD Peloponnesos 791.1 (same dies). VF, dusty red and brown surfaces, minor smoothing on reverse. Rare.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale), purchased from F. Kovacs, December 1997.