Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2338. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LAKONIA, Lakedaimon (Sparta). Circa 90-60/50 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.26 g, 2h). Laureate head of Herakles right / Amphora between piloi of the Dioskouroi; Λ-A across central field, monogram to lower left, MO to lower right; all within wreath. Grunauer group VIII, series 11, 56 var. (V33/R- [unlisted rev. die]); BCD Peloponnesos 867-8. VF, toned, flat strike in centers.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale); Peus 328 (2 May 1990), lot 104.