Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2843. Estimate $150. Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009. Sold For $245. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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LACONIA, Gythium. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Assarion (4.68 g, 3h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Apollo standing facing, head right, leaning in tree trunk, hand on head and holding branch. BCD Peloponnesos 970 (same dies). VF, black-green patina with traces of earthen deposits.
Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale); Classical Numismatic Group 46 (24 June 1998), lot 817.