271, Lot: 42. Estimate $2000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Republicans. Brutus. Early summer 42 BC. AR Denarius (21mm, 3.85 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Brutus in Lycia. C • FLAV • HEMIC • LEG • PRO • PR, draped bust of Apollo right; lyre to right / Trophy composed of helmet, cuirass, shield with incurved sides and two swords, being crowned with wreath by Victory standing left, cradling palm frond in left arm; Q • CAEP • in exergue, BRVT • to right, IMP • to left. Crawford 504/1; CRI 205; Sydenham 1294; Kestner 3774; BMCRR East 55-6; RSC 7. EF, toned, very light green deposits, minor areas of striking weakness.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Sternberg XXIX (30 October 1995), lot 418.