Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2326. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Messene. Circa 50-30 BC. Æ Hemiobol or Hexachalkon (6.46 g, 9h). Diademed head of Demeter right / Zeus Soter standing right, holding scepter and eagle on his outstretched arm; wreath and ΔAMIΩN to left, tripod to right. Grandjean 543 (D294/R471); BCD Peloponnesos 750-2. VF, brown and red patina with patches of green.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale), purchased from A.H. Baldwin, January 1974.