Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2823. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Mothone. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Assarion (4.78 g, 3h). Laureate bust right, seen from behind / Tyche Soterios (Fortuna Redux) standing left, holding rudder and cornucopia. BCD Peloponnesos 804 var. (bust type). VF, green and brown patina, light roughness. Very rare.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale); from the old stock of Jacob Hirsch, with his ticket.