Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 901. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

C. Cassius Longinus and L. Salinator. 84 BC. Æ As (11.70 g, 4h). Semuncial standard. Rome mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus; crescent (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; D • S • S (De senatus sententia) on side of galley. Crawford 355/1c (citing 24 specimens of all varieties in Paris); Sydenham 731. Good VF, green patina, some red, areas of roughness.

From Collection V.C.