Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2382. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LAKONIA, Lakedaimon (Sparta). C. Julius Laco. 2 BC-AD 31. Æ As (6.50 g, 1h). Bare head of Herakles left / Jugate heads of the Dioskouroi left; EΠI ΛAKωNOC Λ A around (barely visible). Grunauer group XXXIII, series 1, 1.2 (V1/R1 – this coin, illustrated); BCD Peloponnesos 928 (same reverse die). VF, green patina with light earthen encrustation. Rare.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale).

Grunauer erroneously marks 1.1 as the illustrated example for her series 1.