The Provincial Issues from Lakedaemon (Sparta)

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2847. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LACONIA, Lacedaemon (Sparta). Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Quadrans (2.54 g, 3h). Struck under C. Julius Eurycles. Bare head right / EΠI EYP YKΛEOΣ, eagle standing right on ground line; Λ to left, A to right. RPC 1104; Grunauer group XXVII, 18-20 var. (V9/R- [unlisted rev. die]); BCD Peloponnesos 923. Fine, green patina.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale), purchased from Baldwin’s, May 1975; Heller Collection, with the collector's ticket.