Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 115Auction date: 21 December 2023
Lot number: 778

Price realized: 65 GBP   (Approx. 82 USD / 75 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
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Lot description:


L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi AR Quinarius. Rome, 90 BC. Laureate head of Apollo to right, cup (control mark) before / Victory standing to right, holding wreath and palm-branch, L PI-SO across fields, FRVGI in exergue. Crawford 340/2f; RSC Calpurnia 13b. 1.88g, 16mm, 4h.

Very Fine.

This coin published in Richard Schaefer's Roman Republican Die Project (RRDP), processed clippings, RRC 300-399, available online at: http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.processed_300-399#schaefer_clippings_output_340-2_04_od;
Privately purchased from Kölner Münzkabinett, 13 December 2021 (17564P, incorrectly listed as Crawford 340/2e);
Ex collection of Prof. Dr. Hildebrecht Hommel;
Ex Münzhandlung Heinrich Pilartz (Köln), Auktion XI, 24 March 1966, lot 210 (sold for 38DM).

Estimate: 50 GBP