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Two Gold 60 Asses

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 581. Estimate $3000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008. 
Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 211-208 BC. AV 60 Asses (3.37 g, 2h). Rome mint. Bearded head of Mars right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet; LX (mark of value) behind / ROMA, eagle standing right, wings spread, on thunderbolt. Crawford 44/2; Bahrfeldt 4a; Sydenham 226; Kestner 285; BMCRR Rome 185-186. Superb EF, underlying luster, slight die shift on obverse, shallow scratch in obverse right field.


From a North American Collection. Ex Sotheby’s New York 6514 (9 December 1993), lot 477.