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376, Lot: 340. Estimate $300.
Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off SICILY, Sardinia. Caralis. Circa 40 BC. Æ (30mm, 26.59 g, 6h). Aristo–, Mutumbal, and Ricoce, suffetes. A[RISTO] M[V]TV[MBAL RICOC]E SVF, jugate male heads right / [V]E[NE]R[IS], KA[R] in exergue, tetrastyle temple façade; in pediment, eagle standing left with wings displayed. RPC I 624; Müller, Afrique 319-20 (Carthage); FITA 149-50; SNG Hunterian 184. Near VF, attractive natural green patina. Rare.


Ex BCD Collection (Auctiones eAuction 41, 18 October 2015), lot 37; Waddell 1 (9 December 1982), lot 583 (hammer of $1200).

The portraits on the obverse are sometimes identified as Octavian and Agrippa, Octavian and M. Aemilius Lepidus, or Octavian and Caesar. More likely, they represent two of the magistrates responsible for the issue.