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160, Lot: 49. Estimate $100.
Sold for $105. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARGOLIS, Argos(?). 4th-2nd century BC. Æ Unit or Tessera (13mm, 2.45 g, 5h). FI within circle / A within shallow incuse square. BCD Peloponnesos 1121.1 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen -; I. Varoucha-Christodoulopoulou, “Acquisitions du Musée Numismatique d’Athènes,” BCH LXXXIV (1960), p. 489, 1 and pl. VIII, 15. VF, dark brown patina.


Ex BCD Collection (LHS, 8 May 2006), lot 1121.1.

A number of these types of coins or tesserae have been found, but the attribution to Argos is uncertain.