A Selection of Caesar Issues

237, Lot: 344. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. January-February 44 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.59 g, 2h). Rome mint. M. Mettius, moneyer. Wreathed head right; lituus and simpulum behind / Venus standing left, holding Victory and scepter, resting elbow on shield set on globe; I to left. Crawford 480/3; Alföldi type III, 115 (this coin); CRI 100; Sydenham 1056; RSC 34. VF, toned, banker’s mark on obverse, areas of flat strike.

From the Collection of Professor L. Fontana.