Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 293. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Mark Antony. 42 BC. AR Denarius (3.61 g, 3h). Rome mint. C. Vibius Varus, moneyer. Bare head of Mark Antony right, wearing short beard / Fortuna, draped, standing left, holding Victory in outstretched right hand and cradling cornucopia in left; C • VIBIVS on right, VARVS on left. Crawford 494/32; CRI 149; Sydenham 1144; Kestner 3739-40; BMCRR Rome 4293-4; RSC 4. EF, wonderful old gray cabinet tone. Superb portrait shows amazing hair and beard detail. Rare.

Ex Barry Feirstein Collection Part IV (Numismatica Ars Classica 45, 2 April 2008), lot 31; Leu 71 (24 October 1997), lot 263; Münzen und Medaillen AG XIX (5 June 1959), lot 161; Münzen und Medaillen AG VII (3 December 1948), lot 517.