Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2869. Estimate $200.  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 Tetrassarion (8.88 g, 1h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust left / Apollo Lykeios standing right, drawing arrow from quiver and holding bow; ligate AC and Δ (marks of value) across field. Grunauer group LVIII, series 1, 1 (V1/R1); BCD Peloponnesos 946.3 (same diese). Near VF, green patina, rough. Rare.

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