381, Lot: 249. Estimate $100. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EASTERN EUROPE, Imitations of Roman Republican. Geto-Dacians. After 115 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.42 g, 3h). Imitating uncertain obverse, reverse of M. Cipius. Stylized helmeted head of Roma left / Stylized [Victory] driving galloping biga right; fish below. Davis Class D, Group Ia, AL2 corr. (this coin; see below). For prototype: cf. Crawford 289/1 (rev.). Near VF, toned, crude.

From the RBW Collection. Ex Phillip Davis Collection (Gemini X, 9 January 2012), lot 592.

From the Gemini sale: “The rudder on the suggested reverse prototype is here misunderstood as a fish. This remarkably "barbarous" piece was originally classified as "Anomalous," but the appearance of a very similar piece - surely the product of the same unskilled engraver - in the Transylvanian Hoard has led to its present reclassification as Dacian.”