410, Lot: 163. Estimate $100. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Pylus. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Assarion (21mm, 4.86 g, 7h). Laureate head right / Aphrodite standing right, holding scepter and apple. BCD Peloponnesos 816 (this coin); otherwise unpublished. Near VF, earthen green patina. Extremely rare, possibly unique, type for Pylus.

Ex BCD Collection (LHS 96, 8 May 2006), lot 816.