Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2339. 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 (2.49 g, 3h). Laureate head of Herakles right / Amphora between piloi of the Dioskouroi; Λ-A across central field, NI-KO across lower field; all within wreath. Grunauer group VIII, series 12, 62 (V38/R57); BCD Peloponnesos 870 (same dies). VF, toned, some die wear on obverse.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale); Elsen 14 (7 October 1989), lot 21.