221, Lot: 54. Estimate $300. Sold for $205. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ACHAIA, Patrai. Circa 31 BC. AR Hemidrachm (15mm, 2.20 g, 11h). Agys Aischrionos, magistrate. Laureate head of Zeus right / AΓVC/ AI-CXPI/ωNOC around ΠA monogram, all within elaborately bound laurel wreath with ties above and two rostra below. BCD Peloponnesos 533. VF, toned.

Ex BCD Collection (not in previous sales); Münz Zentrum 75 (14 April 1993), lot 673.

This issue was probably struck late in 31 BC, after Octavian’s forces had taken Patrai from Antony and Cleopatra.