Triton XXI, Lot: 676. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Mark Antony and Octavia. Summer-autumn 39 BC. AR Cistophorus (25mm, 12.11 g, 12h). Ephesus mint. Conjoined heads of Antony, wearing ivy wreath, and Octavia right; M • ANTONIVS • IMP • COS • DESIG • ITER ET TERT • around / Dionysus, holding cantharus in right hand and thyrsus in left, standing left on cista mystica flanked by interlaced serpents;III • VIR • downward to left, R • P • C upward to right. CRI 263; RSC 3; Sydenham 1198; BMCRR East 135; RPC I 2202. Near EF, lightly toned. Well struck on a broad flan.

From the Dr. Allan Smith Collection.