Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 844. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $375. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

A. Terentius Varro. 169-158 BC. Æ As (28.09 g, 9h). Uncial standard. Rome mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus; I (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; I (mark of value) to right, VARO monogram above. Crawford 185/1 (citing 13 specimens in Paris); Sydenham 364. Good VF, green patina, some red and earthen highlights, areas of minor roughness and smoothing.

From Collection V.C.