Very Rare Orchomenus Assarion

315, Lot: 165. Estimate $150. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARCADIA, Orchomenus. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Assarion (22mm, 4.76 g, 10h). Laureate head right / Dionysus standing facing, head left, holding cantharus in right hand and thyrsus in left; panther at feet to left. BCD Peloponnesos –; BCD Peloponnesos II –; SNG Copenhagen 268 var. (Dionysus’ left hand placed on tree stump instead of holding thyrsus); BMC –. VF, dark green and brown patina. Very rare.

From the R. D. Frederick Collection.