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Monogram of L. Furius Philus?

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 828. Estimate $200. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008. 
Sold For $270. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Uncertain. 189-180 BC. Æ As (29.99 g, 5h). Reduced Sextantal standard. Rome mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus; I (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; I (mark of value) to right; above, Victory advancing right, and LFP (F is retrograde) monogram. Crawford 144/1 (citing 10 specimens in Paris); Sydenham 300. VF, green patina, traces of earthen deposits, minor roughness.


From Collection V.C.

Crawford suggests that if the monogram is correctly discerned to be LFP, the moneyer is possibly L. Furius Philus.