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Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 774. Estimate $3000. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008. 
Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. Circa 225-217 BC. Æ Aes Grave As (285.71 g, 12h). Libral standard. Rome mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus on a raised disk / Prow of galley left; I (mark of value) above; all on a raised disk. Crawford 36/1; Thurlow & Vecchi 57 (80 specimens recorded); Haeberlin pl. 19-20. Good VF, dark brown and green patina, areas of red-brown, minor smoothing on reverse. Very rare with prow left.


From Collection V.C. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 40 (16 May 2007), lot 387.