Fleet Coinage of Antony & Octavia
From the Prue Morgan Fitts & Patrick Villemur Collections
354, Lot: 327. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ACHAEA, Uncertain. Mark Antony, with Octavia. 38-37 BC. Æ As (17mm, 3.52 g, 2h). Fleet Coinage. Light series. M. Oppius Capito, propraetor and
praefectus classis. 54.169. Jugate bare heads of Antony and Octavia right / Quinquereme under sail right; A and gorgoneion below. RPC 1470.69 = Amandry,
Bronze II Series III.2.C, 67 (D28/R38) = CNR II 42/2 (this coin; illustrated in Amandry and CNR). VF, brown surfaces.
From the Prue Morgan Fitts Collection. Ex Patrick Villemur Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 78, 14 May 2008), lot 1239; Bonazzi Collection (R. Ratto, 23 January 1924), lot 1415.