Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 916. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

C. Memmius C. f. 56 BC. AR Denarius (3.83 gm, 7h). Rome mint. QVIRINVS behind, C. MEMMI. C. F before, laureate, long-haired, and bearded head of Quirinus (Romulus) right / MEMMIVS. AED. CERIALIA. PREIMVS. FECIT, Ceres seated right, holding torch and three grain-ears; serpent at her feet. Crawford 427/2; Sydenham 921; Kestner 3463 var. (concentric obverse legend); BMCRR Rome 3940; CNR Memmia 18; Memmia 9. Superb EF, gorgeous old cabinet toning, boldly struck. ($500)

From the Claude Collection.