364, Lot: 231. Estimate $150. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EASTERN EUROPE, Uncertain Tribe. AR Denarius (18mm, 2.82 g, 12h). Uncertain obverse prototype, reverse type of C. Postumius. After 74 BC. Crude head right / Hound right. Davis D/Ia (website AL5); cf. Crawford 394/1 (for rev.). VF, toned.

From the RBW Collection. Ex Phillip Davis Collection (Gemini IX, 8 January 2012), lot 698.

From the Gemini sale: “Classified as ‘anomalous’ because of its strong resemblance to Eraviscan coins in style, fabric, weight, and type selection, although it is not represented in the Eraviscan hoards or die sequences. I think it’s quite possible that it is Eraviscan, simply very rare.”