421, Lot: 521. Estimate $100. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

L. Cassius Caecianus. 102 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.96 g, 6h). Rome mint. Draped bust of Ceres left, wearing wreath of grain ears; A[•] to upper right / Two yoked oxen pulling plow left; X• above. Crawford 321/1; Sydenham 594; Cassia 4; RBW 1176 var. (controls). VF, toned.

From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection.

From Crawford (p. 325): “The control-marks are the letters of the Latin alphabet, with or without a dot; A on the obverse is paired with X on the reverse, B with V and so on as far as K and M; when a dot occurs, it occurs on obverse and reverse and in the same position. Each pair of control-marks may have several pairs of dies.”