411, Lot: 367. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. January-April 46 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 4.03 g, 8h). Utica(?) mint. Head of Ceres right, wearing wreath of grain / Emblems of the augurate and pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, guttus, and lituus; [M] (
munus = gift) to right. Crawford 467/1b; CRI 57a; Sydenham 1024; RSC 4; Type as RBW 1638. EF, lustrous, attractive iridescent toning, reverse struck slightly off center.
From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Triton XII (5 January 2009), lot 504.