CNG 112, Lot: 480. Estimate $300. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 206-195 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.84 g, 5h). Butting bull series. Rome mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; X (mark of value) behind / The Dioscuri, each holding spear, on horseback right; below horses, bull butting left. Crawford 116/1a; Sydenham 281; RSC 20e; cf. RBW 529 (for type). Toned, flan split and crack, tiny scrape above Roma’s eye. Good VF. Rare variety with bull butting left.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex RBW Collection Duplicate; purchased by him from BCD, December 1986.