Triton XX, Lot: 553. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome. Marcus Arrius Secundus. 43 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.09 g, 3h). Rome mint. Young, bare, male head (Octavian? or Quintus Arrius?) right, wearing slight beard; M • ARRIVS upwards behind, SECVNDVS downwards before / Hasta pura (vertical spear) between wreath on left and rectangular phalera (military decoration) on right. Crawford 513/2; CRI 319; Sydenham 1084; Arria 2; Kestner 3787; BMCRR Rome 4210; RBW 1791. Good VF, deeply toned, weak strike and slight die rust on hair of obverse .

From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.22505.