385, Lot: 454. Estimate $300. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Central Italian Overstike (on Gargilius, Ogulnius, and Vergilius). 86 BC. Æ As (25mm, 10.28 g, 5h). Uncertain central Italian mint. Male head, laureate and bearded, right; T before; all within a border of dots / Eagle with open wings flying right,;CA before; all within a border of dots. Stannard, Local Coins of Italy, 2007 provisional catalogue type 108; Overstrike not in RBW, not in Crawford; the undertype is an obverse over reverse overstrike on a 350A/3a GAR OGVL VER as. . VF, dark green and brown patina. Extremely rare, the third known.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 241 (29 September 2010), lot 292 (without the Stannard attribution).

Central Italian first century BC overstrike bronze coin, circle diameter 11mm. Obverse: male head, laureate and bearded to the right, with the letter T before, in a border of dots. Reverse: eagle with open wings flying right, CA before, in a border of dots. The coin is an obverse over reverse overstrike on a 350A/3a GAR OGVL VER as. Cf. Clive Stannard, “Riconiazioni e monetazione imitativa nell’Italia centrale nella tarda Repubblica,”Monete Antiche May-June 2003, no. 9 (available on http://stannard.info) type 14, same obverse and reverse (overstrike) dies on the same undertype type and variety, citing and illustrating Lausanne 2947; and Clive Stannard, The Local Coinages of Central Italy in the late Roman Republic, Provisional Catalogue, Rome 2007, type 108. Another example is known in the BNF Paris, d’Ailly 9993. This coin is the third known example and the only one outside a museum. An extraordinary case of an 11mm overstrike on a 25mm undertype, the fact of there being multiple examples with the same undertype shows that it was not a trial strike. [A. McCabe]