Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 884. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $195. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi. 90 BC. Æ As (10.63 g, 9h). Semuncial standard. Rome mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus; I (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right, on which Victory stands right. Crawford 340/4 (citing 30 specimens in Paris); Sydenham 677. VF, minor porosity, roughness, and smoothing.

From Collection V.C.