Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 917. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

C. Memmius C. f. 56 BC. AR Denarius (3.93 gm, 7h). Rome mint. QVIRINVS behind, C. MEMMI. C. F before, laureate, long-haired, and bearded head of Quirinus (Romulus) right / MEMMIVS. AED. CERIALIA. PREIMVS. FECIT, Ceres seated right, holding torch and three grain-ears; serpent at her feet. Crawford 427/2; Sydenham 921; Kestner 3463; BMCRR Rome 3941; CNR Memmia 19; Memmia 9. Good VF, darkly toned. Attractive. ($300)

From the Claude Collection.