Triton XVII, Lot: 511. Estimate $300. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

P. Nerva. 113-112 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.55 g, 6h). Rome mint. Bust of Roma left, wearing crested helmet, ornamented at each side with a feather or aigrete instead of a wing, visor is peaked, holding spear in right hand over right shoulder, and holding in her left hand a shield, ornamented with a horseman galloping left; crescent above her head; mark of value to left, ROMA upwards to right / View of the interior of the comitium with the pons in the foreground, on which are seen three togate figures; figure on the left advances right to receive a tabella from the rogator figure in the center; figure on the right drops a tabella into a voting box or basket; in the background are three parallel lines, denoting the barriers which divide the saepta (enclosures) allotted to the different tribes; P • (NE)RVA above. Crawford 292/1; Sydenham 548; Kestner 2496-7; BMCRR Italy 526-8; Licinia 7. Good VF, dark toning, a couple shallow scuffs on obverse.

From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.25541.