Watch List notes:

M. Aemilius Lepidus Æ 17mm of Italy, Sicily or Africa. Circa 43-42 BC. LEPIDVS•PONT•MAX•III•V•R•P•C•, bare head to right / LEPIDVS•PONT•MAX•III•V•R•P•C•, bare head to right. Cf. Crawford 495/2a, CRI 140, BMCRR Africa 30 and RSC 2a (for obv.); Gemini X, 333 (same dies); CNG Triton XVIII, 968 (hammer: USD 2,500). 2.81g, 17mm, 5h.

Near Very Fine. Exceedingly Rare; unrecorded in the standard reference works, and seemingly just the third known after the CNG and Gemini specimens.

From the collection of a Romanophile;
Acquired from William Veres.