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Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2837. Estimate $150. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009. 
Sold For $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Thuria. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Assarion (4.55 g, 8h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Tyche standing facing, head left, holding phiale and cornucopia; Λ to left, A to right. BCD Peloponnesos 834.6 (same dies). VF, black-green patina, traces of earthen encrustation in devices.


Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale), purchased from F. Kovacs, December 1986.

Struck from the same obverse die as the following lot.