454, Lot: 120. Estimate $75. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Messene. Late 2nd century BC. Æ Hemiobol – Hexachalkon (19mm, 3.30 g, 12h). Dion, magistrate. Wreathed head of Demeter left / Zeus standing right, preparing to throw thunderbolt; eagle on left arm; to left, ethnic above tripod; wreath and ΔIΩN to right. Grandjean Series XI, Emission θ, 371–447; BCD Peloponnesos 733–4; HGC 5, 577. Variegated dark brown and green patina, some chipping along edge. VF.

From the Alpine Collection. Reportedly ex Pozzi Collection (not published in Naville I, nor Boutin). Lot includes an old French Collection ticket.