Triton XVII, Lot: 492. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. Circa 225-217 BC. Æ Aes Grave As (64mm, 261.36 g, 12h). Libral standard. Rome mint. Head of bearded Janus; no mark of value; all on a raised disk / Prow of galley right; I (mark of value) above; all on a raised disk. Crawford 35/1; Thurlow & Vecchi 51; Haeberlin pl. 14, 1-16, 4; HN Italy 337; Sydenham 72; Kestner 112-3; BMCRR Rome (Aes Grave) 10-16. Good VF, green patina.

Ex R. D. La Penta Collection (Stack’s ANA Auction, 24 August 1976), lot 1682; Robert N. Toppan Collection.