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Lakedaimon (Sparta) AE As

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eAuction #45, Lot 40. Estimate: CHF 200.00

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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