320, Lot: 360. Estimate $100. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Mark Antony. Autumn 32-spring 31 BC. AR Denarius (16mm, 3.37 g, 6h). Legionary issue. Patrae(?) mint. Praetorian galley right / Aquila between two signa; LEG XVIII LVBICAE around above . Crawford 544/11; CRI 375; Sydenham 1240; RSC 53. Near VF, toned, bankers’ marks on obverse, gouge and cleaning marks under tone on reverse. Among the scarcer legions.

From the Simon Shipp Collection.

Not to be confused with a similar legion under the command of Octavian, this Antonian legion was either disbanded or incorporated into another legion after Actium. The cognomen LVBICAE indicates it was raised in North Africa.