Islands off Sicily, Kossura Æ 23mm. 50-1 BC. Head of Isis to left, wearing klaft and necklace; to left, crowning Nike flying to right; c/m: D (branch) D within incuse rectangle / COSSV[RA] across field within laurel wreath. CNS -; SNG Copenhagen 452 (Africa); RPC I 676; for c/m: Pangerl 15; for this type and c/m together: CNG MBS 79, lot 122. 6.96g, 23mm, 6h.
Fine. Very Rare.
From the Anders Collection, collector's tickets included.
More usually found on the issues of Augustus and Agrippa from Nemausus, Pangerl demonstrates that the countermark seen on this coin was apparently applied to several other types that circulated in Gallia Narbonensis.