Description

CNG 82, Lot: 955. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Arrius Secundus. 41 BC. AR Denarius (3.56 g, 6h). Rome mint. Bare head of male (Octavian?) right, wearing slight beard / Vertical spear (hasta pura) between wreath and rectangular phalera. Crawford 513/2; CRI 319; Sydenham 1084; Arria 2. VF, toned, bankers’ marks on obverse, graffiti beneath tone on reverse, a tiny edge test cut. Rare.

Ex Karl Sifferman Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 76/1, 12 September 2007), 1300.