Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2868. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LACONIA, Lacedaemon (Sparta). Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ 8 Assaria (9.60 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Archaic statue of Athena of Gitiadas standing right, brandishing spear and shield; ligate AC and H (marks of value) across field. Grunauer group LVI, series 5, 6 (V1/R6); BCD Peloponnesos 944 var. (bust type). Fine, rough black-green patina.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale), purchased from Leu, January 1979; from the old stock of Jacob Hirsch, with his ticket.

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