421, Lot: 547. Estimate $150. Sold for $126. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Fabius Maximus. Restored issue, 82-80 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.91 g, 3h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right; lyre to right, mark of value below chin / Cornucopia over thunderbolt; all within wreath. Crawford 371/1; Sydenham 718; Fabia 6; RBW 1391. VF, lightly toned.

From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection.

Hoard evidence demonstrates that Crawford 369, 370 and 371 are in fact Sullan period re-issues of moneyers’ types from the 127 BC (Crawford 263, 264 and 265). These moneyers appear to have been ancestors of several of Sulla’s most avid supporters, and the coinage in their names was issued as Rome underwent a purge of Marian loyalists.