377, Lot: 697. Estimate $150. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY. M. Junius Brutus the Younger. 85-42 BC. Cast Æ Medal (33mm, 15.89 g, 6h). Manufactured circa 16th century. Laureate head of Brutus right / Roma seated left on cuirass, holding Victory and parazonium; shields around and behind; ROMA in exergue; S C across field. See Bange 175 (for another example). Good VF, brown and green patina, some finishing marks.

From the RBW Collection. Ex Sternberg XXVII (7 November 1994), lot 665.

This medal combines a created Hellenistic-style portrait on the obverse, combined with a reverse derived from a sestertius on Nero