381, Lot: 303. Estimate $150. Sold for $152. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Ephesus(?). L. Sempronius Atratinus(?). Quaestor, circa 42-39 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 12.49 g, 5h). Cistophoric type. Cista mystica with serpent; all within ivy wreath / Two serpents entwined around bow and bowcase; above, ATPA monogram; Q to left, lit torch to right. W. E. Metcalf, “A Note on the Later Republican Cistophori,” SNR 88 (2009), pp. 205–8; Stumpf 2 (M. Antonius, c. 113/2); SNG von Aulock 1867. Good VF, struck slightly off-center.

From the RBW Collection.