409, Lot: 483. Estimate $500. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. Circa 240 BC. Æ Aes Grave Sextans (34mm, 43.72 g, 6h). Rome mint. Scallop-shell; two pellets (mark of value) across field / Caduceus; sickle to right; two pellets (mark of value) across field. Crawford 25/8; ICC 52; HN Italy 304; RBW 45. VF, green patina, a few casting flaws. With early 20th century Dutch collector’s ticket, reading “Auctie Bourgey Maart 1910 no. 3” (not in the 22 March 1910 sale).

Ex UBS 45 (15 September 1998), lot 358.