436, Lot: 484. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Mark Antony. Late summer-autumn 43 BC. AR Quinarius (13.5mm, 2.11 g, 8h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Winged bust of Victory right, with the likeness of Fulvia / Lion walking right; DVNI (retrograde and inverted) above, [LVGV in exergue]; A to left, X [L] to right (= 40, Antony’s age at time of issue). Crawford 489/5; Lyon 2; King 75; CRI 122; Sydenham 1160; Fulvia 4; Type as RBW 1712. VF, toned with areas of find patina, struck slightly off-center.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 105, 10 May 2017), lot 742; Karl Sifferman Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 171, 22 August 2007), lot 288.

Along with the RRC 101 Corcyra issue and the RRC 432 Domitia OSCA denarius, this is one of only three Roman Republican types to directly name a provincial mint city. [Andrew McCabe]