Dramatic Flip-over Double Strike

378, Lot: 447. Estimate $75. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Mark Antony and Lepidus. May-summer 43 BC. AR Quinarius (15mm, 1.74 g, 9h). Military mint traveling with Antony and Lepidus in Transalpine Gaul. Emblems of the augurate: lituus, capis, and raven standing left / Emblems of the pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, securis, and apex. Crawford 489/3; King 73; CRI 120; Sydenham 1158a; RSC 3. Fine, toned, some porosity. Dramatic flip-over double strike.

From the RBW Collection, purchased from Harlan J. Berk, September 1995.