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Triton XVI, Lot: 793. Estimate $300.
Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

C. Memmius C.f. 56 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.77 g, 9h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Quirinus right, wearing long hair and bear in formal ringlets; QVIRINVS downwards to left, C • MEMMI • C • [F] downwards to right / Ceres seated right, holding torch in left hand and three stalks of grain in right; to right, serpent erect; MEMMIVS • AED • CERIALIA • PREIMVS • FECIT around. Crawford 427/2; Sydenham 921; Kestner 3463-4; BMCRR Rome 3940-2; Memmia 9. Good VF, toned.


From the Chiltern Collection. Ex Tony Hardy Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 61, 25 September 2002), lot 1478.