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376, Lot: 285. Estimate $100.
Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EASTERN EUROPE, Imitations of Roman Republican. Geto-Dacians. After 79 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 2.54 g, 7h). Imitating obverse of C. Naevius Balbus, reverse of Lucius Appuleius Saturninus(?). Stylized head of Venus right; S • C behind / Figure in quadriga right; pseudo-legend around. Davis Class A, Group II, M141 (this coin). For prototype: cf. Crawford 382/1 (obv.) and 317/1 (rev.). Near VF, lightly toned.


From the RBW Collection. Ex Philip Davis Collection (Gemini IX, 9 January 2012), lot 744.4, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 19 October 2005.