Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 360. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Nikomedia. C. Papirius Carbo, Proconsul. 62-59 BC. Æ 25mm (8.62 gm, 12h). Dated year 224 (59 BC). NIKOMHDEWN, laureate head of Zeus right / EPI GAIO[U] PAPIRIOU KARBWN[OS], RWMH in exergue, Roma seated left on pile of shields, holding Nike in right hand, spear in left; monogram in inner left field, DKS (date) below shields. Stumpf 120; RG pg. 514, 2; BMC Pontus pg. 179, 1-3; SNG Copenhagen 545; SNG von Aulock 736; Laffaille -; McClean 7509; Weber 4912. EF, dark green, almost black patina. ($750)

Ex David Freedman Collection (Triton V, 15 January 2002), lot 421; Numismatic Fine Arts V (23-24 February 1978), lot 313.