319, Lot: 350. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustus Cornelius Sulla. 56 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 4.01 g, 6h). Rome mint. Diademed and draped bust of Diana right; crescent above, lituus to left / Sulla seated left on raised seat; to left, Bocchus, king of Mauretania, kneels, offering an olive branch; to right, Jugurtha, king of Numidia, also kneeling, his hands tied behind him. Crawford 426/1; Sydenham 879; Cornelia 59. Near VF, toned, banker’s mark and a few scratches on obverse, graffito (“H”) on reverse, test cut on edge.