Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXXAuction date: 21 March 2024
Lot number: 376

Price realized: 1,900 GBP   (Approx. 2,407 USD / 2,216 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
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Lot description:


L. Cornelius Sulla AR Denarius. Mint moving with Sulla in Asia or Greece, 84-83 BC. Diademed bust of Venus to right; Cupid standing to left before, holding palm, L•SVLLA below / Capis and lituus between two trophies; IMPER above, ITERVM below. Crawford 359/2; BMCRR East 3; RSC Cornelia 29; FFC 632 (this coin). 3.76g, 18mm, 12h.

Extremely Fine; unusually complete and well-centred.

This coin published in Richard Schaefer's Roman Republican Die Project (RRDP), binder 5, p. 62, available online at:
http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.b05#schaefer.rrdp.b05_0074;
This coin published in Fernández, Fernández & Calicó, Catálogo Monográfico de los Denarios de la República Romana (Madrid, 2002);
Ex Alba Longa Collection, Áureo & Calicó, Auction 319, 7 November 2018, lot 292.

Estimate: 500 GBP