342, Lot: 233. Estimate $300. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Messene. Circa 180-150 BC. Æ Hemiobol or Hexachalkon (22mm, 7.05 g, 12h). Dexias, magistrate. Diademed head of Demeter right / Zeus Soter standing right, holding scepter, eagle on his outstretched arm; monogram and ΔEΞIAΣ to left, tripod to right. Grandjean 341a (D205/R304) = BCD Peloponnesos 717 (this coin, illustrated in Grandjean); HGC 5, 576. VF, light chocolate brown patina.

From the RH Collection. Ex BCD Collection (LHS 96, 8 May 2006), lot 717; Hanscotte Collection (Hess 249, 13 November 1979), lot 188.