Triton XX, Lot: 579. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Republicans. Brutus. Early 42 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.76 g, 12h). Military mint, probably at Smyrna; P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, legatus. Emblems of the pontificate: securis, simpulum, and secespita; BRVTVS below / Capis and lituus; LENTVLVS/SPINT in two lines below. Crawford 500/7; CRI 198; RSC 6; Sydenham 1310; Kestner 3770; BMCRR East 80-1; RBW. EF, bright surfaces, some die rust, a few shallow scratches in fields.

From the Kallman Collection. Ex Triton XIII (5 January 2010), lot 296.