CNG 108, Lot: 540. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. March-April 44 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.71 g, 8h). Rome mint; M. Mettius, moneyer. Laureate head right / Venus Victrix standing left, holding Victory and scepter, resting her left elbow on shield set on celestial globe; B to left. Crawford 480/17; Alföldi Type XVI, 49-51 (A6/R33); CRI 101; Sydenham 1055; RSC 35; RBW 1686 var. (letter in rev. field). Good VF, toned, minor obverse die break, reverse slightly off center.

From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection.