367, Lot: 712. Estimate $300. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MODERN REPLICAS. Lot of eight (8) uniface electrotypes of Roman Republican & Imperial coins. Includes: Early Republic “AV” Stater obverse // L. Mussidius Longus “AV” Aureus obverse // Sulla “AV” Aureus reverse // Antony Legionary “AV” Aureus reverse // Ahenobarbus “AV” Aureus obverse // Brutus “AV” Aureus reverse // Augustus “AV” Aureus obverse (2 pieces). As made. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. Eight (8) coins in lot.
Such uniface specimens were created by Robert Ready and sons to mount in educational displays that were produced for and inexpensively sold to British schools in the pre-war era.