Three From the Same Obverse Die

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2866. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LACONIA, Lacedaemon (Sparta). Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ 8 Assaria (10.72 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Dioscuri, each holding horse’s rein, standing vis-à-vis; A H (marks of value) between. Grunauer group LVI, series 1, 2 (V1/R2); BCD Peloponnesos 945. Fine, rough green patina.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale), purchased from A.H. Baldwin, January 1972.

Struck from the same obverse die as the following two lots.