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Triton XVI, Lot: 853. Estimate $7500.
Sold for $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Special issues. L. Cestius and C. Norbanus. May-August 43 BC. AV Aureus (20mm, 8.12 g, 10h). Rome mint. Draped bust of Etruscan (Tiburtine?) Sibyl right; PR in right field; C • NORBANVS above; L • CESTIVS below / Cybele, holding patera in right hands and reins in left, enthroned left on cart drawn by two lions; S • C to upper left. Crawford 491/2; CRI 196; Sydenham 1155; Kestner -; BMCRR Rome 4193; Bahrfeldt 26; Calicó 5a (same dies as illustration = Hess-Leu [16 April 1957], 330) . Near EF, lustrous.


From the Goldman Roman Imperatorial Collection.