257, Lot: 103. Estimate $100. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARGOLIS, Argos. Circa 90-40 BC. AR Hemidrachm (16mm, 2.48 g, 11h). Hieronos, magistrate. Forepart of wolf at bay left / Large A; magistrate’s name across field; below, eagle standing right; all within incuse square. BCD Peloponnesos 1177-8. VF.

The LHS sale notes: “It would be interesting to suggest that the eagle on thunderbolt on the reverse of this coin refers to Cleopatra and that this issue, and others similar to it (with the massive wolf on the obverse), ought to be down-dated to the 30s. The fact that this issue definitely seems to have been struck in haste (many of the specimens known to us are mis-struck), might be evidence for this theory, but it unfortunately does not seem to be compelling at this time.”