CNG 103, Lot: 612. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Anonymous. Circa 225-214 BC. AR Didrachm – Quadrigatus (26mm, 6.52 g, 7h). Uncertain mint. Laureate head of Janus; curved truncation / Jupiter, hurling thunderbolt with right hand and holding scepter in left, in quadriga right driven by Victory; ROMA incuse on raised tablet in exergue. Crawford 28/3; Sydenham 64; RSC 23; RBW 65–6. Near EF, attractive iridescent toning, obverse metal flaw, a few light scratches beneath the tone. Nice metal for the issue. Well centered on a large flan.
From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind.