Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 843. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 169-158 BC. Æ As (28.93 g, 6h). Reduced Sextantal standard. Rome mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus; I (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; I (mark of value) to right; butterfly right on prow above. Crawford 184/1b (citing 20 specimens of all varieties in Paris); Sydenham 295. VF, green patina, traces of red, minor porosity.

From Collection V.C.