Ex Levis, Lambros, and Kopf Collections

CNG 109, Lot: 610. Estimate $750. Sold for $3600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous issues. temp. Tiberius, AD 14-37. Æ Tessera (22mm, 5.48 g, 6h). Struck circa AD 22/3-37. Laureate head of Augustus right; FEL below; all within plain border and wreath / XIII within pearl border and wreath. Buttrey 5/XIII; Cohen 85; Kestner, Tesseren –; Göbl, Antike 85 (this piece cited and illustrated); Bernhart, Handbuch zur Münzkunde der Römischen Kaiserzeit (Halle, 1926), pl. 32, 6 (this piece illustrated). Good VF, dark green patina, gently smoothed in areas. Rare and attractive.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 72 (16 May 2013), lot 595; Classical Numismatic Group 66 (19 May 2004), lot 1351; Classical Numismatic Group 61 (25 September 2002), lot 1629; Sternberg 35 (29 October 2000), lot 437; Dr. Meyer-Coloniensis Collection (Münz Zentrum 64, 15 April 1988), lot 58, purchased from L. Grabow, 1964; Münzen und Medaillen FPL 180 (June 1958), no. 56; H.C. Levis Collection (Naville XI, 18 June 1925), lot 1063; Naville II (12 June 1922), lot 1867; Jean P. Lambros Collection (J. Hirsch XXIX, 9 November 1910), lot 1583; Prof. Kopf Collection (J. Hirsch XII, 17 November 1904), lot 435.