SPARTA SILVER HEMIDRACHM – HERACLES/AMPHORA ISSUE EX 1987 WADDELL SALE – XF IRIDESCENT GREEK LACONIA COIN (Inv. 20818)

$1,575.00

20818. LACONIA. SPARTA. Ca. 100-80 BC.
Silver Hemidrachm, 2.16 g, 16 mm.
Obv. Laureate head of Heracles right. Rev. Λ-A, amphora flanked by pileus of the Dioscuri, monograms in lower fields, all within wreath.
BCD Peloponnesos 868; HGC 5, 611; SNG Copenhagen 560.
Ex CNG Web Sales 12/2008, there stated to be ex BCD but “not from the Leu sales” = ex Edward J. Waddell Auction 11, 9/12/1987, lot 176.
XF, multicolored toning, with various dealer’s and auction tickets.