60, Lot: 128. Estimate $750. Sold for $490. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PESCENNIUS NIGER. 193-194 AD. AR Denarius (19mm, 2.89 gm). Antioch mint. Laureate head right / Seven stars above a crescent. Cf. RIC IV 73; cf. RSC 63. Toned VF, obverse scratches, reverse off center, partial flat strike. Rare type.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group 60 (22 May 2002), lot 1735.
The end of the obverse inscription is illegible and makes definitive attribution impossible.