401, Lot: 158. Estimate $100. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LAKONIA, Lakedaimon (Sparta). C. Julius Eurycles. 31-7 BC. Æ Sextans(?) (15mm, 1.72 g, 12h). Bare head of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa right / Winged kerykeion. Grunauer Group XXIX, 10.2 (V5/R10 – this coin); RPC I 1106; BCD Peloponnesos 925; HGC 5, 640. Fine, green patina with patches of brown, some roughness, scuff on reverse. Very rare.

From the J. Cohen Collection, purchased from John Aiello, 22 August 2015. Ex BCD Collection (not in prior BCD sales), his ticket included in lot, purchased from A. H. Baldwin’s, November 1969.

From the BCD Peloponnesos sale: “In 16 BC Agrippa sailed from Patrae to Gytheion, traveling from there to Sparta where he was honored with a statue put up by a society called the Agrippiasts. It is very likely that the members of this society came from the Jewish community of Sparta (similar societies are known from Rome and Smyrna), which seems to have existed since at least the second half of the 2nd century (correspondence between the High Priest in Judaea and Sparta goes back to a letter to King Areus in the early 3rd century).”