127, Lot: 231. Estimate $75. Sold for $62. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

C. Malleolus C.f. 118 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.78 g, 1h). Helmeted head of Mars right; mallet above; X below chin / Heroic figure standing left, foot on cuirass, holding spear and leaning on tabella divided into two compartments, in one a P, retrograde and sideways; trophy in left field. Crawford 335/3g; Sydenham 615c; Poblicia 7 corr. (P not b). VF.

A note in Crawford (V. I, p. 335) explains: "The tablet here is surely the tessera of a voter in a tribe whose name begins with P, recording a vote for a C. Malleolus."