Triton XVII, Lot: 496. Estimate $300. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 206-195 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.92 g, 9h). Rome mint. Head of Roma right, wearing winged helmet, ornamented with griffin’s head, the visor in three pieces and peaked, single-drop earring, pearl necklace, and hair in three symmetrical locks; X (mark of value) to left / The Dioscuri on horseback riding right, each holding couched spear, and wearing sagum, cuirass, and pileus, surmounted by star; star below horses; ROMA on tablet. Crawford 113/1; Sydenham 263; Kestner 1278-87; BMCRR Rome 457-9; RSC 20gg. EF, toned, traces of deposits, hairline flan crack.

From the Leo & Paula Gorelkin Collection.