Exceptional Portrait
CRI Plate Coin

294, Lot: 554. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2277. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome. C. Antius C.f. Restio. 47 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 4.04 g, 6h). Rome mint. Bare head of the tribune C. Antius Restio right / Hercules advancing right, holding club and trophy, lion skin over arm. Crawford 455/1a; CRI 34 (this coin, illustrated); Sydenham 970; Antia 1. Good VF, handsome gray toning, scratch from upper lip to border under tone.

Ex Numimatica Ars Classica 63 (17 May 2012), lot 369. Privately purchased from Frank Kovacs, March 1985.