421, Lot: 592. Estimate $1000. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

M. Valerius Messalla. 53 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.69 g, 8h). Rome mint. Bust of Roma right, seen from behind, wearing crested Corinthian helmet; spear to left / Curule chair; scepter with royal diadem below. Crawford 435/1; Sydenham 934; Valeria 13; RBW 1547. VF, two bankers’ marks. Very rare, the first CNG has handled since 2007.

From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Nancy Walsh Collection (Gemini XI, 12 January 2014), lot 374; Berk BBS 126 (23 April 2002), lot 185.