Triton XVII, Lot: 501. Estimate $200. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

C. Antestius. 146 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.68 g, 9h). Rome mint. Head of Roma right, in high relief, wearing winged helmet, ornamented with griffin’s head, the visor in three pieces and peaked, wearing earring n shape of bunch of grapes and pearl necklace, hair arranged in three symmetrical locks; C • (ANTE)STI upwards to left, X (mark of value) below chin / The Dioscuri on horseback charging right, each holding a couched spear, and wearing sagum, cuirass, and pileus, surmounted by a star; below horses, dog running right, both fore-feet raised; ROMA on tablet in exergue. Crawford 219/1e; Sydenham 411; Kestner 2076-7; BMCRR Rome 859; Antestia 1. Good VF, toned, traces of deposits on reverse.

From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.22634.