Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 627. Estimate $500. Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008. Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Mark Antony. 38 BC. AR Denarius (3.62 g, 2h). Athens mint. M • ANTONIVS • M • F • M • N • AVGVR • IMP • TERT, Mark Antony, veiled, and wearing the priestly robes of an augur, standing right, holding lituus in right hand / III • VIR • R • P • C • COS • DESIG • ITER • ET • TERT, radiate head of Sol right. Crawford 533/2; CRI 267; Sydenham 1199; Kestner 3822-3823; BMCRR East 141-143; RSC 13. Good VF, deep gold-gray toning, slight flatness of strike on central devices.
Ex William C. Boyd Collection (Baldwin’s 42, 26 September 2005), lot 123 (part of), with his original ticket (numbered 7); purchased from W. S. Lincoln, 1904.