411, Lot: 373. Estimate $200. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Triumvirs. Mark Antony and Lepidus. May-summer 43 BC. AR Quinarius (13mm, 1.85 g, 5h). Military mint traveling with Antony and Lepidus in Transalpine Gaul. Emblems of the augurate: lituus, capis, and raven standing left / Emblems of the pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, securis, and apex. Crawford 489/3; King 73; CRI 120; Sydenham 1158a; RSC 3. VF, toned, several banker’s marks. Rare.
From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Hirsch 298 (7 May 2014), lot 502; Baldwin’s FPL (Summer 2013), lot AR018 (£300); James E. Seaver Collection (Morton & Eden 57, 3 July 2012), lot 287.