CNG 93, Lot: 1108. Estimate $750. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustus Cornelius Sulla. 56 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.70 g, 6h). Rome mint. Draped bust of Diana right, wearing diadem with crescent; lituus to left / Sulla 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. Crawford 426/1; Sydenham 879; Cornelia 59. Good VF, toned, traces of deposits, a pair of light scratches on obverse, edge tests on reverse.