The Barry Feirstein Collection Part IV
The Roman Republic

M. Junius Brutus with Cornelius Lentulus Spinther.  Aureus, mint moving with Brutus 43-42,  AV 8.01 g. Axe, culullus and knife; below, BRVTVS.  Rev. Jug and lituus; below, LENTVLVS / SPINT.  Bahrfeldt 61.3 and pl. VII, 11 (this coin).  B. Junia 40 and Cornelia 70.  C –.  Sydenham 1309.  Sear Imperators 197.  Calicó 59a (this coin).  Crawford 500/6.  Biaggi 36 (this coin).
Exceedingly rare, the only specimen in private hands of only 5 known. Several scratches and
nicks in fields and on the edge, otherwise very fine

Ex Sotheby’s 19-20 June 1991, Nelson Bunker Hunt part II, 670 and Triton III, 1999, 841 sales. From the St. Florian collection.