Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2858. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LACONIA, Lacedaemon (Sparta). Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Diassarion (12.01 g, 1h). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from front; aegis on breastplate / Dioscuri on horseback galloping right. Grunauer group XXXVII, series 9 (unlisted dies); BCD Peloponnesos 939.1-3 var. (bust type). Near VF, even green patina, traces of earthen encrustation.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale).