Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2340. 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 (2.22 g, 12h). Laureate head of Herakles right / Amphora between piloi of the Dioskouroi; Λ-A across central field, monogram to lower left and right; all within wreath. Grunauer group VIII, series 14, 67.1 (V40/R62 – this coin); BCD Peloponnesos 873 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned, flan crack, some die wear on obverse.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale), purchased from A.H. Baldwin, June 1972.