Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 180. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Messene. Circa 70-40 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.34 g, 2h). Xenochares, magistrate. Diademed head of Zeus right / Tripod; ME(monogram)-S across upper field; XE-NO/CA-RHS in three lines across central and lower fields; all within wreath. Grandjean 185 (same dies); BCD Peloponnesos 744 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 506; BMC 19. Choice EF, dark gray toning with slight iridescence.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale); Peus 288 (30 September 1975), lot 210.