Triton XXI, Lot: 630. Estimate $1000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

L. Papius. 79 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 4.02 g, 6h). Rome mint. Head of Juno Sospita right, wearing goat-skin headdress; pelta behind / Griffin springing right; ax below; L • PAPI in exergue. Crawford 384/1 (symbols 121); Sydenham 773; Papia 1; RBW 1412-3 var. (symbols). Superb EF, toned.

Ex Goldberg 80 (3 June 2014), lot 3034 (hammer $1750); Tkalec (8 September 2008), lot 122.