Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 418. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $305. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Metropolis. 3rd century BC. Æ 19mm (7.62 g, 11h). Laureate head of Apollo right / Aphrodite Kastneia standing left, holding dove, leaning on column; to left, Eros standing right, reaching up towards dove. Cf. Rogers 408; cf. Moustaka 79; SNG Copenhagen 174 var. (position of ethnic). Fine, brown patina. Very rare.