CNG 111, Lot: 605. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Anonymous. Circa 225-214 BC. AR Didrachm – Quadrigatus (22.5mm, 6.60 g, 6h). Uncertain mint. Laureate head of Janus; curved truncation / Jupiter, hurling thunderbolt with right hand and holding scepter in left, in quadriga right driven by Victory; ROMA incuse on raised tablet in exergue. Crawford 28/3; Sydenham 64; RSC 23; HN Italy 334; RBW 65–6. Choice EF, attractive old cabinet toning, flan crack.
From the Gasvoda Collection, purchased from Herb Kreindler, August 2014. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 78 (26 May 2014), lot 522.