Triton XVI, Lot: 1158. Estimate $30000. Sold for $26000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Commemorative Series. AD 330-354. Æ Medallion (34mm, 26.40 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 340-350. VRBS ROMA, draped bust of Roma left, wearing laureate crested helmet and necklace / She-wolf to left, suckling Romulus and Remus; two stars above. RIC VII 349; Ntantalia Series C, Group 9, 108 (V78/R72); Kent 19 and pl. 12, 14 (same dies); Gnecchi 6 and pl. 132, 7 (same dies). Near EF, attractive dark green patina, minor areas of roughness. Very rare.
Ex Numismatica Genevensis SA V (2 December 2008), lot 297; Stack’s (29 November 1990), lot 355.