383, Lot: 480. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Local coinages of central Italy. 1st century BC. PB (16mm, 2.75 g, 2h). Uncertain mint in Latium. Head of Janus / S · T · (AM)ILI, prow right. Tkalec (29 February 2008), lot 389, otherwise unpublished. VF. Extremely rare – one of about four known.

From the RBW Collection. Ex Artemide Aste XXXVIII (22 June 2013), lot 173.

This curious struck lead coin belongs to a little-understood and complex series of imitative and privately struck coinage that circulated in central Italy during the 1st century BC. The issuers freely blended the types from the official coinages of Rome, Sicily, and Spain. Though a number of individuals are named on these coins, the names never correspond to those on the official Roman coinage.