147, Lot: 20. Estimate $300. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ACHAIA, Aigion. Circa 37-31 BC. Æ Tetrachalkon (18mm, ). Head of young Dionysos right / Eagle with closed wings standing left; c/m at center, star of eight rays in incuse square. BCD Peloponnesos; SNG Copenhagen. VF, green patina.
From BCD 438: “The types...Dionysos and [Ptolemaic] eagle, have been plausibly connected by Kroll with Antony and Cleopatra....”