CNG 84, Lot: 496. Estimate $500. Sold for $470. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Korone. Circa 100-50 BC. AR Hemidrachm (14mm, 2.42 g, 12h). Helmeted head of Athena right / Grape bunch; E below; all within ivy wreath. Grandjean pl. XXVI, 4; BCD Peloponnesos 784. VF, toned, minor porosity, slight die shift. Rare.

Ex BCD Collection (not in previous sales); Waddell FPL 36 (undated [February 1989]), no. 40.