385, Lot: 468. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Special issues. C. Domitius Calvinus. 39 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.88 g, 8h). Osca mint. Bare head of Hercules right, wearing necklace; OSCA downward to left / Emblems of the Pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, securis, and apex; DOM•COS[•ITER•IMP] around. Crawford 532/1; CRI 342; Sydenham 1358; Burgos 1509; Type as RBW 1819. VF, toned. Rare.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 46 (24 June 1998), lot 1087.

This is one of only three instances where a Roman provincial mint in Republican times added a mint city name to a coin that is part of the mainstream Republican coinage. The other two instances are the quinarii of Fulvia with mint city LVGV[DVNVM], and the island of Corcyra during the Second Punic War where quinarii and victoriati with KORK were minted. In the case of this OSCA mintmarked coin, however, the obverse type also copies the Iberian denarii from that city. Unlike the Iberian denarii, these Domitia types are found together with Roman Republican denarii, and so it seems were accepted as part of the canonical coinage of Rome. [A. McCabe]