Very Rare Leptis Magna Sestertius

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 545. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRTICA, Leptis Magna. Divus Augustus. Died AD 14. Æ “Sestertius” (38mm, 29.34 g, 3h). Struck under Tiberius, AD 14-37. DIVOS AVGV [STVS], laureate head right; eight-rayed star above / LPQY in neo-Punic across field, Dionysus-Shadrapha standing left, holding cantharus in extended right hand and thyrsus over left shoulder; at feet behind, panther standing left, head right, with left forepaw raised. RPC I 848; MAA 17; Müller, Afrique 21; SNG Copenhagen 17. Good VF, black-green patina with traces of earthen overpatina, light adjustment marks on reverse.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection.