Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 515. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $675. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Uncertain mint. Mark Antony. 38-37 BC. Æ “Semis” (17mm, 5.06 g, 9h). Fleet Coinage. L. Bibulus M.f., praetor designatus. [M ANT TER COS DES] ITER ET TER III VIR RPC (NT ligate)], bare head right / L • BIBVLVS • M • F • PR • DES[IG], quinquereme right, with three oars and stern ending in boar’s head left. RPC I 4092.21 = Amandry, Bronze I Series I.E, 21 (D1/R2; this coin). VF, dark green patina.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection. Ex Hanscotte Collection (A. Hess 249, 13 November 1979), lot 312.