Messenia, Messene Æ 23mm. Circa 50-30 BC. Damion, magistrate. Diademed head of Demeter to right / Zeus Ithomatas standing to right, hurling thunderbolt and holding eagle; ΔAMIΩN in left field, wreath in outer left field, ME above tripod in right field. BCD Peloponnesos 752 (this coin); Grandjean 556a (this coin, illustrated); BMC 29; SNG Copenhagen 512; HGC 5, 580. 6.68g, 23mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
This coin published in C. Grandjean, Les Messéniens de 370/369 au 1er siècle de notre ère. Monnayages et histoire. Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Supplément 44. (Athens, 2003);
Acquired from Forestier & Lambert;
Ex BCD Collection, LHS Numismatik AG, Auction 96, 8 May 2006, lot 752;
Ex P. R. Franke Collection.