Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 841. Estimate $200. Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008. Sold For $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Anonymous. 169-158 BC. Æ As (25.98 g, 10h). Uncial standard. Rome mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus; I (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; I (mark of value) to right; above, she-wolf standing right, head left, suckling the Twins (Romulus & Remus). Crawford 183/1 (citing 11 specimens in Paris); Sydenham 298. VF, green patina, traces of red, minor earthen deposits.
From Collection V.C.
Sydenham considers this issue to be of a Reduced Sextantal standard.