Exceptional Peloponnesus Provincial

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 805. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $1630. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARCADIA, Caphya. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Assarion (5.72 g, 5h). Laureate head right / Artemis, with veil billowing, running left, head right, holding torch and bow. BCD Peloponnesus 1385 (this coin). Good VF, black-green patina with dusty beige overtones. Perhaps the finest quality provincial specimen of the entire BCD Peloponnesus Collection. Very rare.

Ex BCD Collection (LHS 96, 8-9 May 2006), lot 1385.