Ex BCD and Brand Collections

346, Lot: 101. Estimate $100. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ACHAIA, Patrai. Circa 31 BC. AR Hemidrachm (15mm, 2.43 g, 11h). Agys, son of Aischrion, magistrate. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / AΓVC/ AI [CXPI]/ωNO[C] around ΠA monogram, all within elaborately bound laurel wreath with ties above and two rostra below. BCD Peloponnesos 534-6; HGC 5, 58. VF, toned, struck from worn dies.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Virgil M. Brand Collection (Part 7, Sotheby’s, 25 October 1984), lot 88 (part of).