Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 694. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ACHAIA, Achaian League. Korone. Circa 195-188 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.29 g, 4h). Laureate head of Zeus left / XA monogram; Ξ-E across field, KO below; all within wreath. Clerk 312 (Messene); BCD Peloponnesos 778-9; SNG Copenhagen -. EF, lightly toned, minor die break on obverse. Very rare.

From Collection C.P.A. Ex BCD Collection (LHS 96, 8 May 2006), lot 779; Lanz 86 (22 November 1993), lot 203.