Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 183. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LAKONIA, Lakedaimon (Sparta). Circa 90-60/50 BC. AR Triobol (2.34 g, 5h). 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 and right. Grunauer group VIII, series 17, 96-99 (obv. die 59); BCD Peloponnesos 876 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 559; BMC -. EF, toned.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale); Stack’s (15 March 1979), lot 159.