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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 122. Estimate $200. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008. 
Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off SICILY, Kossura. 50-1 BC. Æ 21mm (7.84 g, 12h). Head of Isis left, wearing khat/klaft and necklace; to left, crowning Nike flying right; to right, c/m: D (branch) D within incuse rectangle / COSSVRA across field within laurel wreath. RPC 676; CNS -; SNG Copenhagen 452 (North Africa); for c/m: Pangerl 15. Fine, black-brown patina.


From the J.S. Wagner Collection.

This countermark is usually found on Augustus & Agrippa issues of Nemausus, but was apparently applied to various coinages that circulated in Gallia Narbonensis (see Pangerl).