CNG 85, Lot: 786. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

L. Thorius Balbus. 105 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.89 g, 8h). Rome mint. Head of Juno Sospita right, wearing goat skin headdress / Bull charging right; A above. Crawford 316/1; Sydenham 598; Thoria 1. EF, lightly toned, a short, shallow scratch in front of neck. Artistic dies. Exceptional strike for issue.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXXI (9 September 1994), lot 696.