Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1275. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $2650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. January-February 44 BC. AR Denarius (3.72 g, 9h). Rome mint. M. Mettius, moneyer. Laureate head right; lituus and simpulum behind / Venus standing left, holding Victory and scepter, resting arm on shield set on globe; I to left. Crawford 480/3; Alföldi Type III, 96 (A9/R20); CRI 100; Sydenham 1056; RSC 34. Good VF, toned, area of flat strike, contact mark at 4 o’clock on obverse near edge.

From Collection C.G. Ex Stack’s (9 December 1992), lot 3197.