Triton XVI, Lot: 802. Estimate $1000. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome. C. Vibius C.f. C.n. Pansa Caetronianus. 48 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.94 g, 11h). Rome mint. Head of young Bacchus (Liber) right, wearing ivy wreath, tied with fillet, hair falling in two locks down neck; PANS[A] behind / Ceres, wearing wreath grain-ear wreath, in biga right, drawn by two serpents erect, holding reins in right hand and lighted torch in left; [C •] VIBIVS • C • F • C • N upwards to right. Crawford 449/3a; CRI 22; Sydenham 945; Kestner 3548; BMCRR Rome 3973-4; Vibia 17a. EF, handsome toning.
From the Goldman Roman Imperatorial Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 63 (17 May 2012), lot 350, (hammer 1800 CHF).