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Lot 28. Lakedaimon (Sparta) AE As

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Lakedaimon (Sparta) AE As

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Bidding closed (Sunday, October 16th, 19:14:00 CEST)
Current time: Sunday, November 24th, 19:37:47 CET

Price realised: CHF 120.00 (7 bids)
Approx. EUR 128.90 / USD 134.29 / GBP 107.17

High bidder: Bidder 1

eAuction #52, Lot 28. Estimate: CHF 100.00

Lakedaimon (Sparta), Lakonia. AE As (20 mm, 5.32 g), circa 31-7 BC. C. Iulius Eurycles.
Obv. Laureate head of Zeus to right.
Rev. Club; across fields, Λ-A / EΠI - EY/PY-KΛE/O-Σ; all within laurel wreath.
BCD Peloponnesos 921; BMC 63; RPC 1103.

Rare. About very fine.

From the Hartmann Collection.

C. Iulius Eurycles was a Spartan whose sided with Octavian after Marc Antony hang his father Lachares as a pirate. Octavian handed the Island of Kythera over to him as personal property and made him the effective ruler of Lakonia.



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