393, Lot: 225. Estimate $200. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

L. Papius. 79 BC. AR Serrate Denarius (18mm, 3.95 g, 5h). Rome mint. Head of Juno Sospita right, wearing goat-skin headdress; aquila to left / Griffin springing right; altar below. Crawford 384/1 (symbols 158); Sydenham 773; Papia 1. Good VF, toned, minor obverse roughness.

From the Dr. Lawrence D. Sporty Collection. Ex Professor L. Fontana Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 873056, June 2010).