Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2836. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Thuria. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Assarion (4.17 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Apollo standing facing, head left, holding tripod and scepter; [Λ to left], A to right. BCD Peloponnesos 834.5. VF, black-green patina with earthen deposits.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale); purchased from F. Kovacs, June 1976.

Struck from the same obverse die as the previous lot.