Two Exceptional Civil War Period Denarii

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 653. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $7250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Manlia Scantilla. Augusta, AD 193. AR Denarius (2.74 g, 12h). Rome mint. MANL. SCANTILLA. AVG, draped bust right, wearing hair in a large bun at back of head / IVNO RE-GINA, Juno standing front, head left, holding patera in extended right hand and vertical scepter in left; at left, peacock standing left, head right. RIC IV 7a (Julianus); RSC 2; BMCRE 11 (Julianus) var. (break in obv. legend). Superb EF, toned. Very rare. Among the finer known examples.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group Triton VI (14 January 2003), lot 906.