ROME. 1st-3rd centuries AD. PB Tessera (18mm, 3.29 g, 12h).

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Lot: 4. Estimated: $ 100

Selections from the Dalzell Collection, Lead

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ROME. 1st-3rd centuries AD. PB Tessera (18mm, 3.29 g, 12h). Venus Victrix standing right, resting arm on cippus and holding transverse scepter and clasping hands with Mars, standing left / Fortuna standing left, holding rudder and cornucopia. Rostowzew 153; Overbeck, München 16-7. Brown-gray patina. VF.

From the Dalzell Collection.

This has always struck me as one of the most finely produced issues of tesserae Every example I have seen has been crisply engraved and well cast.

Closing Date and Time: 15 December 2021 at 10:01:00 ET.