Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 290. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LAKONIA, Lakedaimon (Sparta). Circa 48-35 BC. Æ Tetrachalkon (4.71 g, 3h). Aristander, nomophylax. Diademed and draped bust of Lakedaimon right; N/O(?) to left / Eagle standing right; Λ A/NOM OΦY/API CTA/NΔ POC in four lines across field. Grunauer Group XIV, Series 12, 128 (V83/R120); BCD Peloponnesos -; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, green patina. Extremely rare; the fourth specimen known, and only one not in a public collection (one in Athens, the second in Berlin, and the third in Vienna).

From the J.S. Wagner Collection. Reportedly found in Sicily.