401, Lot: 283. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Messene. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Time of Nero, AD 54-68. Æ Hemiobol or Hexachalkon (19mm, 4.26 g, 1h). Veiled and draped bust of Tyche right, wearing mural crown / Asclepius standing right, head left, leaning on serpent-entwined staff; trace of wreath to right. Grandjean 693d (D407/R611; this coin); BCD Peloponnesos 761.4 (same dies). Fine, brown patina, rough surfaces. Very rare.

From the J. Cohen Collection. Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS or CNG sales), purchased from J.C. Holm, December 1974; Duplicate from the Danish National Museum, Copenhagen.