Triton XX, Lot: 402. Estimate $3000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MAURETANIA. Juba II, with Kleopatra Selene. 25 BC-AD 24. AR Denarius (18mm, 2.77 g, 5h). Caesarea mint. Struck AD 11-23. REX IVBA, diademed head of Juba right / BACIΛICCA KΛЄOΠATPA, draped bust of Kleopatra Selene left. Mazard 361; MAA 108; SNG Copenhagen 566. Good VF, toned, slightly off center. Very rare.

From the collection of a director. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 54 (26 October 1978), lot 424; August Voirol Collection (Münzen und Medaillen AG 38, 7 December 1968), lot 89; Münzhandlung Basel 4 (1 October 1935), lot 1176.

Juba II proved himself one of Rome’s most loyal client kings, and in AD 11 Augustus honored him with marriage to Kleopatra Selene, the daughter of Kleopatra VII and Mark Antony. The resulting son, Ptolemy, succeeded Juba II in AD 24, and was the last of the Ptolemaic line.