Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 423. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off SICILY, Melita. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Circa 44-36 BC. (5.32 g, 9h). C. Arruntanus Balbus, propraetor. MELITAI WN, veiled and draped female bust (Astarte?) left, wearing stephane / C ARRVNTANVS BALB PROPR (RV ligate), curule chair. RPC I 672.39 (this coin; illustrated); E. Coleiro, “Maltese Coins of the Roman Period,” NC 1971, 10; CNS 14; SNG Hunterian 212-3; SNG Evelpidis 750- 1. Good VF, green patina with area of red on reverse.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection.