Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 625. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Mark Antony and Octavia. 39 BC. AR Cistophorus (11.96 g, 12h). Ephesus mint. M • ANTONIVS • IMP • COS • DESIG • ITER • ET TERT •, conjoined heads of Mark Antony, wearing ivy-wreath, and Octavia right / III • VIR • R • P • C •, Dionysus, draped, standing left, holding cantharus in right hand and long staff (thyrsus) in left, on cista mystica, flanked by interlaced serpents with heads erect. RPC I 2202; CRI 263; Sydenham 1198; BMCRR East 135; RSC 3. Superb EF, lustrous.