407, Lot: 154. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Messene. Late 2nd-early 1st centuries BC. Æ Hemiobol – Hexachalkon (19mm, 4.33 g, 12h). Dion, magistrate. Wreahed head of Demeter right / Zeus standing right, preparing to throw thunderbolt; eagle on left arm; to left, ΔIΩN above ethnic-in-wreath; tripod to right. Grandjean Series XI, Emission ι, 453b (D251/R404) = BCD Peloponnesos 736 (this coin); HGC 5, 578. VF, dark green-brown patina.

Ex BCD Collection (LHS 96, 8 May 2006), lot 736.