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452, Lot: 721. Estimate $200.
Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Special issues. Q. Oppius. 46 BC. Æ Dupondius(?) (26mm, 13.40 g, 12h). Italian(?) mint. Diademed head of Venus right; capricorn behind / Victory advancing left, head right, holding palm frond and plate of fruit. Crawford 550/2d; CRI 507; Sydenham 1277a; RPC I 602; Type as RBW 1858. Tan patina with touches of green, pit on obverse, die break on reverse, some cleaning marks on reverse. Fine. Rare.


From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Goodman Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 47, 16 September 1998), lot 1208 (with invoice dated 18 September 1998 included).

See Marta Barbato, “The Coins of Clovius and Oppius (RRC 476/1 and 550/1-3): New Evidence from Find-spots,” (The Numismatic Chronicle 2015), pp. 103-116. Barbato suggests that this coinage was struck in Rome, 46-45 BC, alongside the Clovius bronze issue. Bernhard Woytek in Arma et Nummi also makes the same proposal. One reason that in the past this coinage had not been linked to the Clovius issue was a perception based on late 19th century analyses by Bahrfeldt that the Oppius issue was made from regular bronze, whereas the Clovius issue was of orichalcum. [Andrew McCabe]