Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2838. 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 (3.65 g, 2h). 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 obv. die). VF, heavily encrusted black-green patina.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale), purchased from F. Kovacs, November 1997.

Struck from the same obverse die as the previous lot.