Exceptional Erotic Tessera

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 886. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $24000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous issues. Time of Tiberius, AD 14-37. Æ Tessera (5.55 g). Heterosexual erotic scene / II within wreath. Simonetta & Riva scene 10B var. (unrecorded with II rev.); Buttrey scene 8 var. (same). EF, even dark green, almost black, patina. Exceptional condition.