Triton XXII, Lot: 229. Estimate $1000. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LAKONIA, Lakedaimon (Sparta). Circa 100-90/80 BC. AR Triobol – Hemidrachm (16.5mm, 2.50 g, 9h). Bearded head of Herakles right, wearing laurel wreath / Amphora; piloi of the Dioskouroi flanking; Λ-A across upper field, T-I across lower field; all within laurel wreath. Grunauer Group VIII, Series 7, 29–33 var. (unlisted dies); BCD Peloponnesos 859; HGC 5, 611; SNG Copenhagen 558. Near EF, deep cabinet tone, traces of find patina. Well centered on a broad flan.