Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2815. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $104. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Cyparissia. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Assarion (4.49 g, 9h). Struck AD 202-205. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / KYΠAP[IC C]IЄΩN, Dionysus standing left, holding cantharus and scepter. Cf. BCD Peloponnesos 791.9 (for rev. type) and cf. BCD Peloponnesos 791.7 (for obv. die). VF, rough brown surfaces. Rare.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale), purchased from Henry Clay Lindgren, October 1976.