Two Rare “Fleet” Coins

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 514. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Uncertain mint. Mark Antony. 38-37 BC. Æ “Semis” (20mm, 5.39 g, 9h). Fleet Coinage. L. Bibulus M.f., praetor designatus. M ANT TER COS DE[S] ITER ET TER III VIR RPC (NT ligate), bare head right / L • BIBVLVS • M • F • PR • DESIG, quinquereme right, with three oars and stern ending in boar’s head left. RPC I 4092.1 = Amandry, Bronze I, Series I.E, 1 (D1/R2; this coin). Good VF, brown patina with lighter green overtones, minor roughness.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.