142, Lot: 98. Estimate $500. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustus Cornelius Sulla. 56 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 4.02 g). Head of young Hercules right, wearing lion's skin headdress, paws knotted below his chin; SC above FAVSTVS monogram behind / Globe surrounded by four wreaths, the larger jewelled and tied with fillet; aplustre and stalk of grain below. Crawford 426/4a; Sydenham 882; Cornelia 61. Near EF, attractively toned.

Ex Arthur Bally-Herzog Collection (Münzen und Medaillen 93, 16 December 2003), lot 41.