Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2904. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARCADIA, Orchomenus. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Assarion (4.57 g, 2h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Asclepius standing facing, head left, leaning on serpent-entwined staff. BCD Peloponnesos 1585 (same obv. die). Near VF, brown and green patina with traces of earthen encrustation. Very rare.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale), purchased from F. Kovacs, December 1993.

Struck from the same reverse die as BCD Peloponnesos 1588.3.