229, Lot: 392. Estimate $150. Sold for $105. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

L. Marcius Philippus. 57 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.81 g, 1h). Rome mint. Head of Philip V of Macedon right, wearing diademed royal Macedonian helmet with goat horns; monogram of ROMA behind, Φ below chin / Statue of equestrian right on inscribed tablet, carrying laurel branch; flower below horse. Crawford 293/1; Sydenham 551; Marcia 12. VF, minor porosity.

The money’s ancestor, L. Marcius Q.f. Philippus had negotiated a treaty of friendship with Philip V of Macedon and the close connections between the Marcii and the Macedonian royal house continued through later generations.