383, Lot: 468. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

L. Sulla. 82 BC. Æ As (32.5mm, 20.39 g, 9h). Mint moving with Sulla. Laureate head of bearded Janus; [I] (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; L • S (VL) above, IMP[E] in exergue. Crawford 368/1; Sydenham 767; RBW 1388. VF, dark brown patina, some red and green, encrustation, earthen deposits. Very rare.

From the RBW Collection. Ex Tony Hardy Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 61, 25 September 2002), lot 1372.

Andrew McCabe notes that this is the last prow bronze of the Roman Republic, excepting the irregular issue Antony and Atratinus, Crawford 530.