Pedigreed Marsic Confederation Denarius

Triton XVIII, Lot: 921. Estimate $10000. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Social War. Coinage of the Marsic Confederation. 90-88 BC. AR Denarius (21mm, 3.68 g, 3h). Series 7b. Corfinium mint. Struck 89 BC. Laureate head of Italia right, wearing pearl necklace; X (mark of value) below chin / Italia, seated left on shields, holding scepter in right hand and sword in left, being crowned with wreath by Victory who stands behind; retrograde E to left; ITALIA in exergue. Campana, Monetazione, 107j (D72/R94; this coin); Sydenham 624; Kestner 3881-2 var. (symbol or letter); BMCRR Social War 15 (same dies). EF, lightly toned, a few areas of weak strike. Great metal. Rare.

Ex Hess-Leu 49 (27 April 1971), lot 308.