169, Lot: 62. Estimate $100. Sold for $216. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Henna. 44-36 BC. Æ 28mm (21.13 g). L. Munatius and L. Cestius, duorviri. Veiled head of Demeter left, wearing stephane and grain ears in hair; torch before / The Rape of Persephone; Hades in galloping quadriga right, holding sceptre, arm around the waist of Persephone. RPC I 661.16 = Virzi 944 (this coin); SNG ANS -; CNS III p. 237, 12. Fine, brown-green patina.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection. Ex Tom Virzi Collection.