381, Lot: 567. Estimate $75. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SWITZERLAND. Marius at Carthage / Horrors of Civil War. Æ Medal (32mm, 13.15 g, 12h). By Jean Dassier & sons, 1740-1750. Marius at Carthage: Marius seated before the ruins of Carthage, receiving officer sent from Rome; date year 664 (90 BC) in exergue / Horrors of Civil War: Fury, holding dagger and torch, with dog at her feet, attacks reclining personification of the Tiber; dated year 668 (86 BC) in exergue. Eisler 41b; Catenacci pp. 84-5. EF.

From the RBW Collection, purchased from Numismatica Ars Classica, 11 December 1992.