Ex J. Pierpont Morgan Collection

Triton XIV, Lot: 570. Estimate $5000. Sold for $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 211-208 BC. AV 60 Asses (15mm, 3.34 g, 6h). Rome mint. Bearded head of Mars right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet; mark of value behind / Eagle standing right on thunderbolt, with wings spread; ROMA below. Crawford 44/2; Bahrfeldt 4a; Sydenham 226; Kestner 285; BMCRR Rome 185-6. EF, toned, shallow test scrape on edge.

From the Collection of a Northern California Gentleman. Ex Superior (7 June 1987), lot 4292; J. Pierpont Morgan Collection (Stack's, 14 September 1983), lot 33.