383, Lot: 454. Estimate $100. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Metellus. 194-190 BC. AR Victoriatus (17mm, 2.36 g, 11h). Contemporary (or barbarous) imitation(?). Rome mint. Laureate head of Jupiter right / Victory standing right, crowning trophy with wreath; ME monogram between. Crawford 132/1; Sydenham 318; Caecilia 2; RBW 583. VF, find patina with earthen highlights/deposits.

From the RBW Collection, purchased from Alberto de Falco, 14 June 1995.

RBW notes that Charles Hersh considered this coin to be a contemporary forgery.