160, Lot: 130. Estimate $150. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Thuria. Geta. As Caesar, AD 198-209. Æ Assarion (20mm, 4.11 g, 3h). Bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Athena standing left, holding phiale and spear; L-A across fields. BCD Peloponnesos 836 (this coin). VF, black-green patina with dusty orange overtones. Rare.

Ex BCD Collection (LHS 96, 8-9 May 2006), lot 836.