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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 543. Estimate $300. 
Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008. 
Sold For $375. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRTICA, Leptis Magna. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ “As” (7.18 g, 7h). Bare head right / LPQY in neo-Punic in exergue, capricorn to left, holding globe; filleted cornucopia over right shoulder. RPC I 845.5 (this coin); MAA 15; Müller, Afrique 17; SNG Copenhagen 15. VF, dark green patina with area of brown on reverse. Extremely rare.


From the Patrick Villemur Collection. Ex Kölner Münzkabinett 48 (10 April 1989), lot 134; Kricheldorf XXXIV (24 January 1980), lot 294; Kress 170 (8 November 1977), lot 702.