Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2797. Estimate $100. Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009. Sold For $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ACHAEA, Patrae. Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ Diassarion (10.14 g, 9h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Tyche standing left, holding phiale over lighted altar and cornucopia. Cf. BCD Peloponnesos 566.1 (for rev. type on an assarion) and cf. BCD Peloponnesos 565.2 (for obv. die). Fine, dark brown patina.
Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale); Hans M. F. Schulman (31 May 1972), lot 1299; Thomas Ollive Mabbott Collection (Part 1, Hans M. F. Schulman, 6 June 1969), lot 939.