Triton XVIII, Lot: 917. Estimate $300. Sold for $555. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 211-208 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 4.53 g, 6h). Rome mint. Head of Roma right, wearing winged helmet, ornamented with griffin’s head, the visor in three pieces, single-drop earring, and necklace; X (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 exergue. Crawford 44/5; Sydenham 167; Kestner 289-327; BMCRR Italy 91; RBW 165-8; RSC 1a. EF, toned, small flan flaw and traces of die rust on obverse, a few tiny marks.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Aretusa 4 (22 March 1996), lot 345.