Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 576. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $725. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LAKONIA, Lakedaimon (Sparta). Circa 35-31 BC. Æ Dupondius (11.58 g, 12h). Diokles, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo right; [DIOKLHC to left] / Draped bust of Artemis right, quiver over shoulder, within wreath. Grunauer group XXII, series 2, 9 (V8/R8); BCD Peloponnesos 916; SNG Copenhagen 593 (same dies). Near VF, green-brown patina, weak strike in centers, porous. Very rare.

From the Christopher Morcom Collection.