Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 748. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYCLADES, Paros. Mid 2nd - 1st centuries BC. AR Drachm (3.69 g, 12h). Akou-, magistrate. Wreathed head of Demeter right / E/ΠAPI/AKOY in three lines within wreath. Rhousopoulos 3168 var. (magistrate), otherwise unpublished. VF, softly struck. Extremely rare Hellenistic issue of Paros.

This late magistrate issue of Paros, as a series, is greatly underrepresented in the published collections.