From the Amadeus and Laffaille Collections

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 549. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRTICA, Oea. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Time of Tiberius, AD 14-37. Æ “Semissis” (20mm, 5.02 g, 3h). WY’T in neo-Punic across field, helmeted and draped bust of Athena right, wearing mural crown / Tripod; bow and quiver on either side. RPC I 836.10 = Laffaille 631 (this coin); MAA 37; Müller, Afrique 32; SNG Copenhagen 21. VF, dark green patina.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection. Ex Amadeus Collection (Giessener Münzhandlung 100, 20 November 1999), lot 242; Maurice Laffaille Collection (Münzen und Medaillen 76, 19 September 1991), lot 631.