408, Lot: 431. Estimate $300. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome. Albinus Bruti f. 48 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.96 g, 11h). Rome mint. Bare head of the consul Aulus Postumius Albinus right / ALBINV/BRVTI • F in two lines within wreath of grain ears. Crawford 450/3b; CRI 27; Sydenham 943a; Postumia 14; Type as RBW –. Near EF, toned. Struck from clashed dies.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Künker 262 (13 March 2015), lot 7723.

The features before the face on the obverse suggest this is an overstrike, but if one compares Münzen und Medaillen Basel XXVIII, 19 June 1964, lot 232, which has the same obverse die, the same features appear; hence, the anomaly must be from this die rather than from an undertype. The feature is incuse and seems to follow the circle of the reverse corn ear, and around the point of the truncation one can see leaves. Hence, this is a result of a die clash. A die clash between two incuse-engraved dies produces a raised feature on the damaged die and thus an incuse and reversed image on the as-struck coin. Compare also to lot 423. [Andrew McCabe]