Ex Consul Weber Collection

453, Lot: 563. Estimate $1000. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Manlia Scantilla. Augusta, AD 193. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.28 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Didius Julianus. Draped bust right / Juno standing left, holding patera and vertical scepter; at feet to left, peacock standing left with head right. RIC IV 7a (Julianus); RSC 2. Old collection toning, cleaning scratches under tone. VF. Rare.

Ex Arthur Bally-Herzog Collection (Part II, Münzen und Medaillen GmbH 14, 16 April 2004), lot 174, purchased from Leo Hamburger, Frankfurt am Main, 31 August 1909 for CHF 150; Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber Collection (J. Hirsch XXIV, 10 May 1909), lot 1777 (there described as “Schӧn und von grӧsster Seltenheit” – “Beautiful and of the greatest rarity.”).