349, Lot: 234. Estimate $100. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Cyparissa. Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217. Æ Assarion (21mm, 5.61 g, 9h). Struck circa AD 198-208. Draped bust right / Dionysus standing left, holding thyrsus and pouring cantharus. BCD Peloponnesos –; BCD Peloponnesos II 2813; NCP p. 70 (pl. P, XVII); Dura 2118; BMC –. VF, green-brown patina, minor roughness. Very rare.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.