Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 892. Estimate $150. Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008. Sold For $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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L. Rubrius Dossenus. 87 BC. Æ As (10.62 g, 11h). Semuncial standard. Rome mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus; in center, a cylindrical altar round which a serpent is entwined / Prow of galley right; I (mark of value) to right. Crawford 348/5 (citing 21 specimens in Paris); Sydenham 709. VF, brown surfaces, areas of porosity. An intriguing obverse type.
From Collection V.C.