Triton XVIII, Lot: 918. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 209-208 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 4.44 g, 10h). Mint in Sicily. Head of Roma right, wearing winged helmet, ornamented with griffin’s head, 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 chlamys, cuirass, and pileus, surmounted by star; grain ear and crooked staff below horses; ROMA in exergue. Crawford 77/1; Sydenham 225; RSC 20m; Kestner 923-4; BMCRR –; RBW 325. Good VF, three test cuts on edge. Very rare.

From the RBW Collection. Ex Goodman Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 43, 24 September 1997), lot 1348.