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295, Lot: 368. Estimate $100.
Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. Circa 88 BC(?). Æ Semis (21mm, 5.96 g, 2h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Jupiter right; S (mark of value) behind / Prow of galley right; S (mark of value) above; to right, dolphin downward. Crawford –; Sydenham –; BMCRR II, p. 589, 10. Near VF, dark green patina. Rare.


From the British Museum catalog: “The date of issue of this coin is doubtful. It is of the semiuncial standard, and corresponds in work and style to similar pieces also with symbols which Count de Salis has assigned to B.C. 88, i.e., after the passing of the Lex Papiria ...”