349, Lot: 235. Estimate $100. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESSENIA, Cyparissa. Plautilla. Augusta, AD 202-205. Æ Assarion (22mm, 3.98 g, 5h). Draped bust right / Minerva standing left, holding patera and spear. BCD Peloponnesos 800-1; BCD Peloponnesos II 2817; NCP p. 70 (pl. P, XVIII); Dura –; BMC 5. VF, dark brown patina, light earthen deposits. Overstruck on uncertain type. Rare.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.