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Triton XVI, Lot: 791. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustus Cornelius Sulla. 56 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.67 g, 5h). Rome mint. Diademed and draped bust of Diana right, wearing cruciform earring, necklace of pendants, and her hair collected into a knot at back of head, which is decorated with jewels, other jewels in hair above forehead; lituus to left, FAVSTVS downwards to right / Sulla, togate, seated left on raised seat; before him, Bocchus, king of Mauretania, kneels, offering an olive branch; behind, Jugurtha, king of Numidia, also kneeling, his hands tied behind him; FELIX above on right. Crawford 426/1; Sydenham 879; Kestner 3455; BMCRR Rome 3824-5; Cornelia 59. EF, toned.


From the Chiltern Collection. Ex Triton VI (14 January 2003), lot 733.