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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 317. Estimate $200. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007. 
Sold For $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Messene. Circa 50-30 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.18 g, 11h). Apollonidas, magistrate. Diademed head of Zeus right / Tripod; ME(monogram)-S across upper field; AP-OL/LW-NI/DA-S in three lines across central and lower fields; all within wreath. Grandjean 201 (same dies); BCD Peloponnesos 747 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen -. VF, toned. Extremely rare.



Ex BCD Collection (LHS 96, 8 May 2006), lot 747; Glendining’s (11 October 1993), lot 34 (part of).