385, Lot: 422. Estimate $150. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 179-170 BC. AR Victoriatus (16mm, 2.52 g, 8h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Jupiter right / Victory standing right, crowning trophy with wreath. Crawford 166/1; Sydenham 313; RSC –; Type not in RBW; Friedman-Schaefer Cr. 166-wild hair variety. Good VF, find patina on the obverse, toned with touches of find patina on the reverse. Very rare.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Numismatica Tintinna 11 (21 July 2011), lot 1020.

166/1 anonymous victoriatus. Variant with wild strands of hair. Cf. K. L. Friedman and R. Schaefer, “Guide to the Anonymous Victoriatus,”The Celator September 2009, revised 2014, identifying wild and neat hair variants of Cr. 166/1. A rare victoriatus type. http://stevebrinkman.ancients.info/anonymous/AnonymousVictoriatii.html [A. McCabe]