Very Rare Pompeiian Pseudo-Mint Issue

443, Lot: 512. Estimate $100. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Pseudo-mint at Pompeii. Circa 140/30-90/70 BC. Æ (12mm, 1.41 g, 10h). Laureate head of Apollo right / Bull butting right; AOΣΣ above. Frey-Kupper & Stannard, “Les imitations pseudo-Ébusus / Massalia en Italie centrale: typologie et structure, présence dans les collections et dans les trouvailles de France,” in RN 166 (2010), type 3; Stannard et al, “Coins of the Pompeian Pseudomint and of the Italo-Baetican Series from Southern France,” in AJN 27 (2015), 3. VF, dark green-brown patina. Very rare.