Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 465. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. Circa 225-217 BC. Æ Aes Grave As (276.52 g, 12h). Libral standard. Rome mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus; horizontal I (mark of value) below; all on a raised disk / Prow of galley right; I (mark of value) above; all on a raised disk. Crawford 35/1; Thurlow & Vecchi 51; Haeberlin pl. 11, 2-3. EF, green patina. Excellent style.