443, Lot: 449. Estimate $100. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 189-180 BC. Æ As (32.5mm, 30.13 g, 4h). Victory and LFP series. Rome mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus; I (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; Victory flying right, holding wreath, and (LFP) monogram above, I (mark of value) to right. Crawford 144/1; Sydenham 300; Type as RBW 641. VF, brown surfaces with touches of green. Very rare.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex RBW Collection Duplicate; Numismatica Ars Classica E (4 April 1995), lot 2787.

Crawford suggests the moneyer was L. Furius Philus, praetor in 171 BC. If Lucius was moneyer at the age of exactly 29 as was usual, and a praetor has to be at least 39 years old, then that helps date the series to the 180s. [Andrew McCabe]