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Obolos 17

20 December 2020
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Starting Price: 300 CHF
Hammer Price:  320 CHF
Lot 610

Albinus Bruti f, 48 BC. Denarius (Silver, 18 mm, 3.52 g, 7 h), Rome. A POSTVMIVS COS Bare head of the consul Aulus Postumius Albinus right. Rev. ALBINV BRVTI F in two lines within a wreath of grain ears. Babelon (Postumia) 14. Crawford 450/3b. CRI 27. Sydenham 943a. A nice, well centered and realistic portrait of the moneyer's ancestor. A few minor marks on obverse and a planchet flaw on reverse, otherwise, extremely fine.



In the houses of Rome's elite citizens were usually a room devoted to the remembrance of the family's ancestors, often with death masks molded directly from the face of the recently departed. The portrait of the consul Aulus Postumius Albinus on this coin is so realistic that it was perhaps copied from the actual death mask.

Online bidding closes: 20 Dec 2020, 20:05:00 CET Current Date & Time: 16 Apr 2024, 15:47:55 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:320 CHF by MailBidder9866 (2 bids)
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