Third and Finest Known Specimen

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 572. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NUMIDIA, Cirta. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ “As” (25mm, 7.22 g, 6h). P. Sittius Mugonianus, quattuorvir. DECRETO D [S P DE]CVRIONVM, draped female bust right, wearing stephane / [P] SITTIVS [MVGO]NIANV[S IIII VIR], bare male head right. RPC I 703 = MAA 133 = Mazard 534 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen -. Good VF, black and brown patina. Extremely rare and finest known.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection. Ex Comptoir Général Financier Monnaies XXV (26 January 2006), lot 136.