Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2813. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Cyparissia. Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217. Æ Assarion (4.10 g, 7h). Struck AD 202-205. Draped bust right / [KYΠAPIC] CIЄΩN, Dionysus standing left, holding cantharus and scepter. Cf. BCD Peloponnesos 791.9 (for rev. type) and cf. BCD Peloponnesos 791.4 (for obv. die). Fine, rough black-green and brown surfaces. Very rare.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale), purchased from Henry Clay Lindgren, October 1976.