Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 953. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Mark Antony and Octavia. 39 BC. AR Cistophorus (12.03 g, 1h). Ephesus mint. Conjoined heads of Mark Antony, wearing ivy-wreath, and Octavia right / Dionysus standing left, holding cantharus and thyrsus, on cista mystica flanked by two interlaced snakes with heads erect. RPC I 2202; CRI 263; Sydenham 1198; RSC 3. VF, light gold and gray toning, a couple shallow scratches.