279, Lot: 374. Estimate $100. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

C. Memmius C.f. 56 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.98 g, 6h). Rome mint. Laureate, long-haired, and bearded head of Quirinus (Romulus) right / Ceres seated right, holding torch and three stalks of grain; serpent at her feet. Crawford 427/2; Sydenham 921; Memmia 9. VF, toned, surface roughness and corrosion, cleaning marks.

From the Bruce R. Brace Collection.