408, Lot: 397. Estimate $200. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 169-158 BC. Æ Semis (26mm, 9.79 g, 12h). Butterfly and vine branch series. Rome mint. Laureate head of Saturn right; S (mark of value) to left / Prow of galley right; above, butterfly on vine branch with leaf and grape bunch, S (mark of value) to right, ROMA below. Crawford 184/2; Sydenham 296a; Type as RBW 782. Near VF, dark green to black patina. Rare.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex JD Collection (Part II, Numismatica Ars Classica 72, 16 May 2013), lot 1093; J. Schulman FPL 212 (Winter 1977), lot 79 (250 Dutch Guilders).