Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 833. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Matienus. 179-170 BC. Æ As (34.21 g, 5h). Uncial standard. Rome mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus; I (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; I (mark of value) to right, MAT monogram above. Crawford 162/3 (citing 30 specimens in Paris); Sydenham 321a. VF, dark gray-green patina, deposits on edge, minor roughness and smoothing.

From Collection V.C.