Search


CNG Bidding Platform

Information

Products and Services



Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Triton XVII, Lot: 577. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. January-February 44 BC. AR Denarius (21mm, 3.97 g, 2h). Lifetime issue. Rome mint; M. Mettius, moneyer. Wreathed head right; lituus and simpulum to left; CAESAR • IMP downwards to right / Venus Victrix standing left, holding Victory in outstretched right hand and transverse scepter in left, resting her left elbow on shield set on celestial globe; G to left, M • METTIVS downwards to right. Crawford 480/3; Alföldi Type III, 1, 4-5, 7 (A1/R1); CRI 100; Sydenham 1056; Kestner -; BMCRR Rome 4143-5; RSC 34; CNR 111. Good VF, toned, areas of flat strike.


From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.24913.