Two Erotic Tesserae From the Same Obverse Die

CNG 109, Lot: 619. Estimate $2000. Sold for $6060. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous issues. temp. Tiberius, AD 14-37. Æ Tessera (21mm, 5.00 g, 2h). Struck circa AD 22/3-37. Erotic scene with a male figure lying face down on a couch, resting on left elbow and looking back at female (?) partner behind him / XIIII within pearl border and wreath. Campana, Spintriae, Series 11, obv. die 24/XIII (this piece cited); Simonetta & Riva 13/D; Buttrey 7/XV. VF, even brown-green surfaces, pierced in antiquity.

From the WRG Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXIX (30 March 1994), lot 529.