147, Lot: 26. Estimate $5000.
Sold for $3200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
|
MESSENIA, Messene. Circa 183-182 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.75 g, 12h). Diademed head of Demeter right, wearing pearl earring and wheat wreath /
MESSANIWN IQWM, Zeus Ithomatas standing right, hurling thunderbolt and holding eagle on outstretched hand;
D-I / O-N across fields. Grandjean 94a (this coin, illustrated); BCD Peloponnesos 711 (same); SNG Copenhagen -. VF, toned, some porosity. Extremely rare.
