Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2337. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $730. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LAKONIA, Lakedaimon (Sparta). Circa 90-60/50 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.31 g, 2h). Laureate head of Herakles right / Amphora between piloi of the Dioskouroi; Λ-A across upper field, KI-Π across lower; all within wreath. Grunauer group VIII, series 10, 43.1 (V26/R40 – this coin); BCD Peloponnesos 866 (same rev. die). VF, toned.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale); Holger-Dombrowski FPL 46 (April/May 1972), no. 181.