Triton XVII, Lot: 546. Estimate $300. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustus Cornelius Sulla. 56 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.65 g, 6h). Rome mint. Laureate, diademed, and draped bust of Venus right, wearing cruciform earring, necklace, hair collected into a knot, which is decorated with jewels, and string of pearls at back of head; scepter to left; S • C downwards to left / Three military trophies; capis to left, lituus to right; FAVSTVS monogram in exergue. Crawford 426/3; Sydenham 884; Kestner 3457-8; BMCRR Rome 3909-11; Cornelia 63. Good VF, toned, a few minor marks under tone.

From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.12857.