CNG 84, Lot: 935. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. 47-46 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.90 g, 6h). Military mint traveling with Caesar in North Africa. Diademed head of Venus right / Aeneas advancing left, holding palladium and bearing Anchises on his shoulder. Crawford 458/1; CRI 55; Sydenham 1013; RSC 12. Near EF. Nicely centered.