166, Lot: 118. Estimate $150. Sold for $185. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

L. Philippus. 113-112 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.88 g). Head of Philip V of Macedon right, wearing diademed royal Macedonian helmet with goat horns; monogram of ROMA behind; F below chin / Statue of equestrian right on inscribed tablet, carrying laurel branch; flower below horse. Crawford 293/1; Sydenham 551; Marcia 12. VF, toned.

The money’s ancestor, L. Marcius Q.f. Philippus had negotiated a treaty of friendship with Philip V of Macedon and the close connections between the Marcii and the Macedon royal house continued through later generations. The first Republican coin to portray a historical person, rather than a deity or personification.