Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2327. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Messene. Circa 35 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.25 g, 10h). Polykles, magistrate. Diademed head of Zeus right / Tripod; (ME)-Σ and ΠO-ΛY/KΛ-HΣ around; all within wreath. Grandjean 203g (D125/R171 – this coin); BCD Peloponnesos 753 (same dies). EF, toned. Rare.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale); Stack’s (15 March 1979), lot 157 (part of).