Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 819. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $290. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 206-195 BC. Æ As (36.40 g, 9h). Sextantal standard. Rome mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus; I (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; I (mark of value) above, thunderbolt to right. Crawford 119/3 (citing only 5 specimens in Paris); Sydenham 248. VF, green and brown patina, areas of roughness. Very rare.

From Collection V.C.