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410, Lot: 89. Estimate $100.
Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Messene. Circa 180-150 BC. Æ Hemiobol or Hexachalkon (21.5mm, 6.08 g, 12h). Dexias, magistrate. Diademed head of Demeter right / Zeus Soter standing right, holding scepter, eagle on his outstretched arm; monogram and ΔEΞIAΣ to left, tripod to right. Grandjean Series IX, emission η; BCD Peloponnesos 717; HGC 5, 576. VF, dark green-brown patina.


Ex CNG Inventory 833436 (January 2009); BCD Collection (not in prior BCD sales), purchased from Sidney Mygind, October 1995.