Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2816. Estimate $100. Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009. Sold For $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MESSENIA, Cyparissia. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Assarion (4.22 g, 9h). Struck AD 202-205. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Apollo standing facing, head left, holding laurel branch and cithara set on low column. BCD Peloponnesos 795 (same dies). Fine, rough brown surfaces. Very rare.
Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale), purchased from Henry Clay Lindgren, October 1976.