Triton XVII, Lot: 551. Estimate $500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

A. Plautius. 55 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 4.08 g, 10h). Rome mint. Turreted head of Cybele right, wearing cruciform earring, hair in knot, locks falling down neck; AED • CVR • S • C downwards to left, A • PLAVTIVS downwards to right / Bacchius kneeling right beside his camel, holding reins in left hand and extending olive branch upward in right; IVDAEVS upwards to right, BACCHIVS in exergue. Crawford 431/1; Sydenham 932; Kestner 3479-80; BMCRR Rome 3916-9; Plautia 13. Near EF, toned, small mark on obverse under tone. Well centered and boldly struck.

From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.24805.