CNG 111, Lot: 606. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. Circa 225-214 BC. AR Didrachm – Quadrigatus (23mm, 6.68 g, 6h). Uncertain mint. Laureate head of Janus; curved truncation / Jupiter, hurling thunderbolt with right hand and holding scepter in left, in quadriga right driven by Victory; ROMA incuse on raised tablet in exergue. Crawford 28/3; Sydenham 64; RSC 23; HN Italy 334; RBW 65–6. VF, toned, a couple of small flan flaws.

From the Ealing Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s, July 2010.