420, Lot: 403. Estimate $150. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Lutatius Cerco. 109-108 BC. AR Denarius (18.8mm, 3.84 g, 12h). Rome mint. Helmeted head of Roma (or Mars) right; mark of value to left / Galley right with head of Roma on prow; all within oak wreath. Crawford 305/1; Sydenham 559; Lutatia 2; Type as RBW 1146. Good VF, lightly toned, ‘al-marco’ weight adjustment on the reverse.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection, purchased from Lodge Antiquities, 2013.

This coin has a very fortuitously placed “Stannard gouge” or al-marco weight adjustment gouge that avoids both the wreath and the galley! See http://www.stannard.info/website/Publications.html for Clive Stannard's articles about the adjustment al-marco of the weight of Roman Republican denarius blanks by gouging. [A. McCabe]