432, Lot: 257. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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L. Roscius Fabatus. 59 BC. AR Serrate Denarius (18mm, 3.84 g, 6h). Rome mint. Head of Juno Sospita right, wearing goat skin headdress; curved sword to left / Female standing right, feeding serpent to right; scabbard to left. Crawford 412/1 (symbol pair 90, curved sword/scabbard); Sydenham 915; Roscia 3; RBW 1491-2 var. (symbols). Near EF, light iridescent toning, some peripheral striking weakness.
From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Athena Fund (Part 2, Sotheby’s Zurich, 27 October 1993), lot 1275 (part of).