“Year 1 of Rome”

446, Lot: 244. Estimate $100. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DECAPOLIS, Gadara(?). Pseudo-autonomous issue. 1st century BC. Æ (21mm, 8.11 g, 12h). Dated year 1 of the Pompeian Era (64/3 BC). Helmeted and draped bust right of Roma / L A (date)/ΡΩΜΗΣ in two lines above aphlaston. Spijkerman 2; HGC 10, 382. Near VF, dark brown to black patina with reddish earthen highlights/deposits, some light smoothing. Rare.