Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1256. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

[Early Italian and Roman Issues] ROME. 230-226 BC. AR Didrachm (6.48 g, 7h). Rome mint. Head of Mars right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet; club behind / Horse galloping right; club above, ROMA below. Crawford 27/1; Sydenham 23; Kestner 76; BMCRR Romano-Campanian 49; RSC 32. Good VF, traces of porosity and light cleaning marks beneath lovely cabinet toning. Very rare. ($1500)

From the John F. Sullivan Collection.