Rare Brutus Quinarius

275, Lot: 67. Estimate $300. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Republicans. Brutus. Spring-early summer 42 BC. AR Quinarius (14mm, 1.61 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Brutus in southwestern Asia Minor. Quaestorial chair, against which rests staff; modius below / Tripod; securis to left, simpulum to right. Crawford 502/4; CRI 203; Sydenham 1292; RSC 13. VF, toned. Rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Lanz 78 (25 November 1996), lot 476; Münzen & Medaillen Basel XIX (5 June 1959), lot 145.