Choice Social War Denarius from the Rindge Collection

CNG 85, Lot: 795. Estimate $1500. Sold for $4200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Social War. Coinage of the Marsic Confederation. 90-88 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.72 g, 8h). Bovianum(?) mint. Series 9b, 89 BC. Laureate head of Italia left / Soldier standing facing, head right, foot on uncertain object, holding inverted spear and sword, recumbent bull to right facing; retrograde B in exergue. Campana 123 (D87/R107); Sydenham 627. EF, toned. Rare.

Ex Frederick H. Rindge Collection (Malter XXIX, 22 March 1985), lot 475.