Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 973. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Mark Antony and Octavia. Summer-autumn 39 BC. AR Cistophorus (11.32 g, 12h). Ephesus mint. Conjoined heads of Mark Antony, wreathed, and Octavia right / Dionysus, holding cantharus and thyrsus, standing left on cista mystica, flanked by interlaced serpents. RPC 2202; CRI 263; Sydenham 1198; RSC 3. Good VF, toned, minor porosity, a few marks beneath tone.