294, Lot: 535. Estimate $150. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

M. Aemilius Scaurus and Pub. Plautius Hypsaeus. 58 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 2.80 g, 3h). Rome mint. Nabatean King Aretas kneeling right, holding reins and olive branch tied with fillet before camel standing right / Jupiter driving galloping quadriga left, holding reins and hurling thunderbolt. Crawford 422/1b; Sydenham 913; Aemilia 8. EF, lightly toned, areas of minor porosity.

From the Chiltern Collection. Ex Italo Vecchi.