394, Lot: 27. Estimate $150. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CALABRIA, Orra. Circa 210-150 BC. Æ Quincunx (17mm, 5.40 g, 6h). Draped bust of Venus right, wearing laureate stephanos / Cupid standing right, playing kithara; five pellets (mark of value) to left. Travaglini pl. 102, 4; HN Italy 793. VF, brown patina, slightly off center on reverse. Very rare.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s, 1993.