369, Lot: 387. Estimate $100. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Mothone. Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217. Æ Assarion (22mm, 4.30 g, 6h). Struck circa AD 198-205. Draped bust right / Athena standing right, holding spear and patera; shield at side. BCD Peloponnesos –; BCD Peloponnesos II –; BMC 2 = NCP pl. P, XII; SNG Copenhagen 539. Fine, brown patina. Rare.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.