Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 504. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. Early 46 BC. AR Denarius (4.04 g, 8h). Utica(?) mint. Head of Ceres right, wearing wreath of grain; COS • TERT behind, DICT • ITER before / Emblems of the augurate and pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, capis, and lituus; M (munus = gift) to right, AVGVR above, PONT • MA[X] below. Crawford 467/1b; CRI 57a; Sydenham 1024; Kestner 3639-40; BMCRR Africa 23-5; RSC 4. EF, lustrous, reverse struck slightly off center.