Three Rare Confederacy Fractions

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 205. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $1080. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AKARNANIA, Federal Coinage (Akarnanian Confederacy). Circa 250-200 BC. AR Drachm (5.11 g, 12h). Leukas mint; Lykourgos, magistrate. Head of river-god Achelӧos right; [ΛY]KOYPΓOΣ behind / Apollo Aktios seated left on throne, holding bow; AP monogram to left. BCD Akarnania 29 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen 419. Good VF, toned, minor porosity. Rare denomination.

Ex BCD Collection; A. Hess 253 (8 March 1983), lot 167.