Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2821. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Messene. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Time of the later Julio-Claudians, mid first century AD. Æ Hemiobol or Hexichalkon (5.31 g, 1h). Veiled and draped bust of Tyche right, wearing mural crown / Artemis standing facing, head right, holding scepter and resting hand on low column; to right at feet, dog standing right with head left. Grandjean Série XVI, Em. γ, 689c (D405/R608 – this coin); BCD Peloponnesos 761.3. Near VF, brown patina.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale).