Signed Obverse Die

228, Lot: 294. Estimate $300. Sold for $460. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Mark Antony. Summer 32 BC. AR Denarius (21mm, 3.80 g, 12h). Athens mint. Bare head right; small P (signature) in hair below ear / Legend in two lines across field. Crawford 542/2; CRI 347; Sydenham 1209; RSC 2. VF, some spotty toning, strike a bit soft.

The only such instance of an engraver’s signature on a Roman Republican coin, the ‘P’ marking behind Antony’s ear is so well concealed that it was not discovered until 1920.