411, Lot: 368. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. 40 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.92 g, 11h). Rome mint; Ti. Sempronius Gracchus, quaestor designatus. Wreathed head right; S C flanking neck / Signum, aquila, plow, and decempeda (measuring rod); TI • SEMPRONIVS above; GRACCVS in exergue; • Q • DESIG to left. Crawford 525/4a; CRI 327a; Sydenham 1129; RSC 47; cf. RBW 1811. VF, toned, obverse banker’s marks. Nice portrait of Caesar. Very rare.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex JD Collection (Part III, Numismatica Ars Classica 78, Part II, 27 May 2014), lot 1900; Kricheldorf 38 (28 November 1984), lot 555; Luigi de Nicola FPL (June 1964), lot 384 (35,000 It. Lira).