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Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1326. Estimate $1000. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005. 
Sold For $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. Circa 289-245 BC. Æ Aes Grave As (333.52 gm, 12h). Rome mint. Head of beardless Janus on raised disk; I above / Head of Mercury left, wearing winged petasos, on raised disk. Thurlow & Vecchi 1; Haeberlin pl. 38, 1; Crawford 25/4; Sydenham 44. Fine, dark green-brown patina, minor porosity and smoothing. ($1000)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Bradbury Thurlow Collection (Classical Numismatic Group XXIV, 9 December 1992), lot 4. With an invoice from Frederick S. Knobloch dated January 3, 1968 (The Hess-Leu pedigree mentioned on the invoice is incorrect).