Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 451. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ACHAEA, Fleet Coinage. Uncertain mint. Mark Antony. 38-37 BC. Æ “Sestertius” (26mm, 14.82 g, 7h). Light series. M. Oppius Capito, propraetor and praefectus classis. [M ANT • IMP TER COS DES ITER ET TER III VIR R• P • C • (NT ligate)], bare head of Antony right vis-à-vis head of Octavia left / M • OPPIVS • CAPITIO • P[R) • PR • PRAEF • CLASS • F • C •], two figures standing right on quadriga of hippocamps; HS to left; lituus to right; [in exergue, D and prow of quinquereme left]. RPC I 1468.1 (this coin, illustrated) = Amandry, Bronze II Series III.2.A, 9 (D3/R5; this coin). Fine, brown patina, light overal roughness.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection.