Triton XVII, Lot: 493. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 211-208 BC. AR Quinarius (17mm, 2.22 g, 4h). Rome mint. Head of Roma right, wearing winged helmet, ornamented with griffin’s head, the visor in three pieces, earring, and necklace; V (mark of value) to left / The Dioscuri on horseback riding right, each holding couched spear, and wearing chlamys, cuirass, and pileus, surmounted by star; ROMA in relief in linear frame. Crawford 44/6; King 1; Sydenham 141; Kestner 328-52; BMCRR Rome 10-12; RSC 3. Superb EF.