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21 February 2021
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Affordable Varus aureus

Starting Price: 1500 CHF
Hammer Price:  4400 CHF
Lot 520

C. Vibius Varus, 42 BC. Aureus (Gold, 20 mm, 7.95 g, 3 h), Rome. Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. C · VIBIVS VARVS Venus, half nude and seen from behind, standing left beside a column, looking at herself in mirror. Babelon (Vibia) 27. Biaggi 23. Calicó 33. Crawford 494/34. CRI 190. Sydenham 1137. RBW 1738. Some smoothing in the fields, minor marks and almost certainly once mounted, otherwise, very fine.

From the Trausnitz Collection, ex unnamed German auction May 1995, 217.

Online bidding closes: 21 Feb 2021, 19:20:00 CET Current Date & Time: 19 Apr 2024, 22:15:23 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:4400 CHF by mfogassa (15 bids)
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