Triton XX, Lot: 517. Estimate $400. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

C. Servilius Vatia. Restored issue, 82-80 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.86 g, 12h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right, hair rolled back and falling in two locks down neck; B above lituus to left; mark of value below chin; ROMA below / Battle on horseback between a man wielding shield in right hand and sword in raised left hand and man (M. Servilius Pulex Geminus) galloping left, and piercing with spear the other horseman, and holding shield inscribed M (Marcus); C • SERVEIL in exergue. Crawford 370/1b; Sydenham 720; Servilia 7; Kestner 3180-3181; BMCRR Rome 1169-1170; RBW 1390. Good VF, lightly toned, a few minor marks on obverse.

From the Kallman Collection. Ex Triton XI (8 January 2008), lot 603.

The reverse type celebrates M. Servilius Pulex Geminus, who was elected augur in 211 BC and held that office for about forty years, and was consul in 202 BC. According to Plutarch, he received numerous wounds in twenty-three single combats, being victorious in all (Plutarch, Paulus Aemilius, xxxi).