Watch List notes:

Faustus Cornelius Sulla. 56 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.65 g, 6h). Rome mint. Laureate, diademed, and draped bust of Venus right, wearing cruciform earring, necklace, hair collected into a knot, which is decorated with jewels, and string of pearls at back of head; scepter to left; S • C downwards to left / Three military trophies; capis to left, lituus to right; FAVSTVS monogram in exergue. Crawford 426/3; Sydenham 884; Kestner 3457-8; BMCRR Rome 3909-11; Cornelia 63. Good VF, toned, a few minor marks under tone.


From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.12857.