CNG 85, Lot: 379. Estimate $500. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Messene. Circa 35 BC. AR Hemidrachm (13mm, 2.37 g, 12h). Polykles, magistrate. Diademed head of Zeus right / Tripod; ΠO-ΛY/KΛ-HΣ in two lines across field; all within laurel wreath. Grandjean 216 (D133/R183 – this coin); BCD Peloponnesos 753-5. EF, toned.

Ex BCD Collection (not in previous sales); Auctiones 15 (18 September 1985), lot 117; Ratto FPL (October 1924), no. 50.