Stack's (pre-Feb 2011) > Vermeule, Ward, and Mexico Maxico Collections | Auction date: 11 January 2010 |
Lot number: 256 | |
Lot description: ACHAEA. Uncertain mint. Mark Antony, with Octavia, 38-37 B.C. Æ 'Sestertius'. Fleet Coinage issue. L. Sempronius Atratinus, consul designatus. Confronted busts of Mark Antony, on left, bare, and Octavia, on right, draped. Rv. Two figures standing in embrace on quadriga of hippocamps, lituus to their right; in left field, [HS]; below, Δ and an uncertain square object (astralagos or perhaps a prow). 20.99 grams. RPC 1453.1 (this coin. illus.). Light porosity. Green patina. Nearly Very Fine. (2,000-3,000) From the Estate of Cornelius C. Vermeule; ex V.J.E. Ryan Collection (Glendining, April 1952, Lot 2245). |