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Pedigreed to the Reinhold Faelten Collection

385, Lot: 470. Estimate $200.
Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Mark Antony. Summer 32 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.72 g, 12h). Athens mint. ANTON AVG IMP III COS DE[S III•III•V•R•P•C], bare head right; small P (signature) in hair below ear / ANTONIVS/AV[G I]MP III in two lines. Crawford 542/2; CRI 347; Sydenham 1209; RSC 2; Type as RBW 1831. Near VF, toned, obverse banker’s mark.


From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 49 (17 March 1999), lot 1316; Reinhold Faelten Collection (Stack’s, 20 January 1938), lot 1495.

This coin oddly repeats Antony’s titles on both the obverse and reverse; perhaps the prominent placement of M.SILANVS as the sole reverse type on Cr. 542/1 seemed to usurp Antony’s primacy. The engraver’s signature letter P is visible under the first curls of hair behind the ear. Reinhold Faelten was a classical piano teacher whose publications are still current. His collection, when sold in 1938, was the first significant Stack’s sale of ancient coins, and also featured plates assembled from photographing the coins themselves rather than plaster casts, a highly unusual feature at the time, predating by several decades the general practice in coin photography. It’s thus a landmark sale from the perspective of both ancient numismatics and American numismatic history. There are no examples of coins from this sale on CoinArchives. [A. McCabe]