Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 814. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. 225-212 BC. AR Didrachm or Quadrigatus (6.56 gm, 5h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Janus; curved truncation / Jupiter in galloping quadriga driven right by Victory, holding thunderbolt and sceptre; ROMA incuse on raised tablet in exergue. Crawford 28/3; Sydenham 64a; Kestner 90; BMCRR Romano-Campanian 78; RSC 23. Good VF, pleasing old cabinet toning. A well-centered, exceptional obverse strike on a broad flan. ($750)

From the Claude Collection.