378, Lot: 247. Estimate $150. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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EASTERN EUROPE, Imitations of Roman Republican. Geto-Dacians. After 79 BC. AR Serrate Denarius (18.5mm, 3.52 g, 1h). Imitating obverse of L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi, reverse of L. Papius. Laureate head of Apollo right; traces of XXXVI to left / Stylized Pegasos standing right; pseudo-legend in exergue. Davis Class A, Group III, H2 (this coin). For prototype: cf. Crawford 340/1 (obv.) and 384/1 (rev.). Fine, toned, double struck on reverse.
From the RBW Collection. Ex Philip Davis Collection (Gemini IX, 9 January 2012), lot 682.
From Davis’s website: “Obverse mechanically transferred from known control XXXVI die. Reverse depicts a stylized Pegasus, possibly double-struck, apparently a misunderstood griffin copied from an original of L. Papius; legend is blundered, but recognizable as that of L. Papius.”