First Portrait Issue of Mark Antony

Triton XX, Lot: 583. Estimate $5000. Sold for $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Mark Antony. April-May 44 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.80 g, 3h). Rome mint; P. Sepullius Macer, moneyer. Veiled head right, wearing beard; capis to left, lituus to right / Desultor (horseman who leaps from one horse to another), wearing conical cap and holding whip, right on horseback, second horse behind; [palm frond] and wreath to left; P • SEPVLLIVS above, MACER below. Crawford 480/22; Alföldi Type XXI, – (A9a/R– [unlisted rev. die]); CRI 142; RSC 74; Sydenham 1077; Kestner –; BMCRR Rome 4178; RBW 1689. EF, attractive mauve-gray cabinet toning. Rare.

From the Kallman Collection. Ex Guy Weill Goudchaux Collection (Triton XIII, 5 January 2010), lot 289; UBS 78 (9 September 2008), lot 1119.