410, Lot: 157. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Cyparissa. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Assarion (21mm, 4.11 g, 12h). Struck circa AD 198-209. Laureate head right / Athena standing left, holding patera and spear. BCD Peloponnesos 793 (this coin); NCP p. 70, 2. VF, rough brown patina. Rare.

Ex BCD Collection (LHS 96, 8 May 2006), lot 793, purchased from Baldwin’s, March 1975.