Triton XVI, Lot: 793. Estimate $300. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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C. Memmius C.f. 56 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.77 g, 9h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Quirinus right, wearing long hair and bear in formal ringlets; QVIRINVS downwards to left, C • MEMMI • C • [F] downwards to right / Ceres seated right, holding torch in left hand and three stalks of grain in right; to right, serpent erect; MEMMIVS • AED • CERIALIA • PREIMVS • FECIT around. Crawford 427/2; Sydenham 921; Kestner 3463-4; BMCRR Rome 3940-2; Memmia 9. Good VF, toned.
From the Chiltern Collection. Ex Tony Hardy Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 61, 25 September 2002), lot 1478.