288, Lot: 165. Estimate $200. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Messene. Circa 70-40 BC. AR Triobol or Hemidrachm (17mm, 2.32 g, 10h). Xenochares, magistrate. Diademed head of Zeus right / Tripod; (ME)-Σ, ΞE-NO, and XA-PHΣ in three lines across field; all within wreath. BCD Peloponnesos 744 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 506; HGC 5, 570. Near EF, attractively toned, obverse double struck.

From the BCD Collection (not in previous sales). Ex Malloy VI (12 March 1976), lot 94.