From the Gemini V Auction, Closed January 6, 2009. Lot# 841 Estimate: US$400 Orichalcum tessera or quadrans. (First-second century AD). 16 mm, 2.46 gm, yellow metal shows through (2.46 gm). . Upright laurel branch, IO—IO across field, TRI—VMP around / Two horseshoes side by side, surrounded by torque composed of two serpents with their tails entwined. Cohen VIII, p. 267, 1 (10 Fr.). Good very fine. Ex Malter XLV, 28-29 May 1991. ... Lot 841 sold for high bid of $475 [ $546.25, or approx 404.225 EUR, 371.45 GBP including the 15% buyers premium.] Gemini Auctions' results, text and images are re-used by the kind permission of: Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) and Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com)