Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2835. Estimate $100. Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009. Sold For $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MESSENIA, Thuria. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Assarion (5.45 g, 9h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Athena standing facing, head left, holding phiale and spear; [Λ to left], trace of A to right. BCD Peloponnesos 834.3. Fine, rough brown surfaces.
Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale), purchased from Baldwin’s, December 1970.
Struck from the same obverse die as BCD Peloponnesos 834.5 and the following lot.