CNG 85, Lot: 823. Estimate $500. Sold for $610. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. Late 46-early 45 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 4.02 g, 3h). Military mint traveling with Caesar in Spain. Diademed head of Venus right; small Cupid on shoulder / Trophy of Gallic arms; bound captive to left and right. Crawford 468/1; CRI 58; Sydenham 1014; RSC 13. EF, hairline flan crack on reverse at 2 o’clock.