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342, Lot: 499. Estimate $150.
Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Mark Antony. Summer 32 BC. Fourrée Denarius (17mm, 2.70 g, 10h). Athens mint. Bare head right; small P (signature) in hair below ear / ANTONIVS/AVG IMP III in two lines. Crawford 542/2; CRI 347; Sydenham 1209; RSC 2. Fine, toned, plating broken in several places on the edge.


From the D. Fagan Collection, purchased from Pegasi Numismatics.

The only such instance of an engraver’s signature on a Roman Republican coin, the “P” marking behind Antony’s ear is so well concealed that it was not discovered until 1920.