Exceptional Apulian Victoriatus

364, Lot: 31. Estimate $500. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 211-210 BC. AR Victoriatus (16mm, 3.08 g, 12h). Mint in Apulia. Laureate head of Jupiter right / Victory standing right, crowning trophy; MT monogram to lower right. Crawford 103/1b; Sydenham 117; RBW 463 var.; RSC 36i. Superb EF, lightly toned. Great metal. Rare.

From the RBW Collection. Ex Goodman Collection (Triton I, 2 December 1997), lot 948; Lanz 44 (16 May 1988), lot 334.

The victoriatus in the RBW catalog is the variant with Jupiter’s hair falling in three, neat ringlets (Crawford 103/1c).