Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2818. Estimate $150. Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009. Sold For $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MESSENIA, Cyparissia. Geta. As Caesar, AD 198-209. Æ Assarion (4.34 g, 4h). Struck AD 202-205. Bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Male figure standing left, holding uncertain round object and scepter. BCD Peloponnesos -; cf. Mionnet Suppl. IV 25 (Julia Domna). VF, rough brown surfaces. Extremely rare, unpublished in the standard references.
Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale), purchased from Henry Clay Lindgren, October 1976.