Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 768. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $1950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. Circa 225-217 BC. Æ Aes Grave As (246.41 g, 12h). Libral standard. Rome mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus; no mark of value below; all on a raised disk / Prow of galley right; I (mark of value) above; all on a raised disk. Crawford 35/1; Thurlow & Vecchi 51a; Haeberlin pl. 14-16, 4. VF, thick green find patina, traces of deposits.

From Collection V.C.

Haeberlin has estimated that Thurlow & Vecchi 51, with mark of value below head of Janus, is about twice as common as 51a, with no mark of value below.