Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 182. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LAKONIA, Lakedaimon (Sparta). Circa 90-60/50 BC. AR Triobol (2.29 g, 3h). Bearded head of Herakles right, wearing pearl diadem / Amphora, decorated with snake; flanked by L-A below pilei of the Dioskouroi; monogram to lower left, KH to lower right. Grunauer group VIII, series 16, 92 corr. (same obv. die; monogram incorrectly rendered); BCD Peloponnesos 874 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen -; BMC 11-2. Good VF, dark iridescent toning, obverse a little off center.

Ex BCD Collection (LHS 96, 8 May 2006), lot 874; Glendining (20 June 1984), lot 48 (part of).