Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 842. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 169-158 BC. Æ As (25.43 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; butterfly on vine branch with leaf and grape bunch above. Crawford 184/1a (citing 20 specimens of all varieties in Paris); Sydenham 296. VF, green patina, some red, earthen deposits on edge.

From Collection V.C.

Sydenham considers this issue to be of a Reduced Sextantal standard.