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442, Lot: 649. Estimate $150.
Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LACONIA, Lacedaemon (Sparta). Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ 8 Assaria (27mm, 11.38 g, 4h). [ΓAΛΛ]IHNON AYΓOY, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΛAKЄΔA[I]-MONIωN, archaic statue of the Apollo of Amyklai, head to right, holding spear and bow; across field, AC monogram and H (= 8 assaria). Grunauer Group LVI, Series 4, 5 (same dies); BCD Peloponessos 946.2 (this coin). Near VF, brown patina. Very rare.


Ex BCD Collection (LHS 96, 8 May 2006), lot 946 (part of), purchased from Baldwin’s, May 1975; Heller Collection, purchased from Spink, 1955.