429, Lot: 408. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANCIENT THEMES, Roman Republican. Octavianus (Octavian), M. Antonius (Antony), and M. Aemilius Lepidus. III Vir RPC, 43-33 BC. Æ Medal (32mm, 14.59 g, 12h). Roman Series: The Second Triumvirate. By J. Dassier. Dated 711 AUC (43 BC) [issued mid-18th century]. OCTAVE ANTOINE LEPIDE, jugate busts right of Octavianus, Antonius, and Lepidus / Scene of the partition of the empire; Octavian, Antony, and Lepidus at a table, dividing the empire marked out on a map; in two lines in exergue, PARTAGE DE L’EMPIRE/ A. R. 711. Catenacci pp. 110-1. EF, brown surfaces.

From the DMS Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 931917 (August 2012).

Jean Dassier’s series of medals illustrating Roman history consisted of 61 pieces, covering important individuals and events throughout Rome’s early history, from the city’s founding by Romulus, the rape of the Sabine women, and the rule of Numa Pompilius, to the fall of the Republic with the murder of Caesar, the second triumvirate, and rise of Augustus.