279, Lot: 296. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Cn. Blasio Cn.f. 112-111 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.72 g, 12h). Rome mint. Helmeted male head right (of Mars, Scipio Africanus, or Blassio?); prow stem behind, mark of value above / Jupiter standing facing, holding sceptre and thunderbolt, between Juno, and Minerva, crowning Jupiter with wreath; Π between Jupiter and Minerva. Crawford 296/1d; Sydenham 561b; Cornelia 19. Good VF, toned, contact mark on eyebrow, traces of die rust on obverse, areas of flat strike on reverse.

From the Bruce R. Brace Collection.