374, Lot: 372. Estimate $200. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MYSIA, Pergamon(?). L. Sempronius Atratinus(?). Quaestor, circa 42-39 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.80 g, 1h). Cistophoric type. Cista mystica with serpent; all within ivy wreath / Two serpents entwined around bow and bowcase; above, ATPA monogram; Q to left, serpent-entwined staff to right. Kleiner,
Hoard –; SNG France 1766-8 (Pergamon); Metcalf, “A Note on the Later Republican Cistophori,”
SNR 88 (2009), pp. 205-8, pl. 15. Good VF, some minor porosity.
From the RBW Collection.