From the Leo Benz Collection
275, Lot: 66. Estimate $300. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Republicans. Brutus. Spring-early summer 42 BC. AR Quinarius (13mm, 1.75 g, 3h). Military mint traveling with Brutus and Cassius in northern Greece or western Asia Minor. Diademed head of Libertas right / Stem of prow and anchor in saltire. Crawford 506/3; CRI 210; King 79; Sydenham 1288; RSC 5a. Near VF, toned, some porosity, bankers’ marks on obverse. Rare.
Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Leo Benz Collection (Lanz 88, 23 November 1998), lot 800.