420, Lot: 389. Estimate $100. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Cluvius Saxula. 169-158 BC. Æ As (32.1mm, 19.65 g, 2h). Rome mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus; I (mark of value) above / Prow of galley right; SAX (AX ligate) above; I (mark of value) to right; ROMA below. Crawford 180/1; Sydenham 361; Type as RBW 762. VF, dark green patina with traces of red, some roughness and minor smoothing. Very rare.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection, purchased from Spink & Son, 1995.