385, Lot: 397. Estimate $300. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Anonymous. 211-208 BC. AR Victoriatus (16mm, 3.27 g, 5h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Jupiter right / Victory standing right, crowning trophy, with skirt on trophy; ROMA in exergue. Crawford 44/1; Sydenham 83; RSC 9; RBW –, but cf. RBW 159 (with greaves rather than skirt); Friedman-Schaefer Cr.44-Group B. Good VF, toned. Nice metal.
From the Andrew McCabe Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s, 1991.
Cr.44 victoriatus, Group B (with skirt on trophy, but no greaves nor base); for classification see K. L. Friedman and R. Schaefer, “Guide to the Anonymous Victoriatus,” The Celator, September 2009, revised 2014 at http://stevebrinkman.ancients.info/anonymous/AnonymousVictoriatii.html [A. McCabe]