CNG 106, Lot: 662. Estimate $500. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

L. Roscius Fabatus. 59 BC. AR Serrate Denarius (18mm, 3.93 g, 5h). Rome mint. Head of Juno Sospita right, wearing goat skin headdress; uncertain symbol (staffs?) to left / Female standing right, feeding serpent to right; uncertain symbol to left. Crawford 412/1 (symbols 37, not described); Sydenham 915; Roscia 3; Athena Fund II 1265 (this coin). Superb EF.

From the R. West Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 730645 (March 2002); UBS 53 (29 January 2002), lot 96; Athena Fund (Part II, Sotheby’s Zurich, 27 October 1993), lot 1265.