From the Magnaguti Collection

CNG 91, Lot: 807. Estimate $10000. Sold for $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 241-240 BC. Æ Aes Grave As (73mm, 269.50 g, 12h). Libral standard. Rome mint. Head of lion facing, holding sword in mouth / Head of horse left; caduceus in upper left field. Crawford –; Thurlow & Vecchi 45; Haeberlin pl. 63, 9. VF, slightly cracked green and red patina, areas of fill. Extremely rare and impressive.

From the L.C. Aes Grave Collection. Ex Artemide Aste XXX (9 October 2010), lot 112 (cover coin); Münzen und Medaillen AG 47 (30 November 1972), lot 80; Count Alessandro Magnaguti Collection (Part II, Santamaria, 12 October 1949), lot 23.