442, Lot: 648. Estimate $150. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LACONIA, Lacedaemon (Sparta). Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ 8 Assaria (26mm, 11.91 g, 2h). ΓAΛΛIHNON AYΓOY, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / [ΛAKЄΔAI]-MONIΩN, the Dioscuri standing facing; between, H above A C monogram (= 8 assaria). Grunauer Group LVI, Series 2, 3 (same dies); BCD Peloponnesos 946.1 (this coin). VF, brown patina. Very rare.

Ex BCD Collection (LHS 96, 8 May 2006), lot 946 (part of).