432, Lot: 257. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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).