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378, Lot: 249. Estimate $100.
Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EASTERN EUROPE, Imitations of Roman Republican. Geto-Dacians. After 56 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.62 g, 5h). Imitating obverse of C. Naevius Balbus, reverse of Faustus Cornelia Sulla. Diademed head of Venus right; S C to left / Three military trophies between a capis and lituus. Davis Class A, Group II, M157 (this coin). For prototype: cf. Crawford 382/1 (obv.) and 426/3 (rev.). Fine, slightly off center, a few light scratches on obverse.


From the RBW Collection. Ex Philip Davis Collection (Gemini IX, 9 January 2012), lot 714, purchased from Rauch, 10 November 2005.