125, Lot: 178. Estimate $150. Sold for $348. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustus Cornelius Sulla. 56 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 4.14 g). Diademed and draped bust of Diana right; crescent above, lituus behind / Sulla seated left; Bocchus, king of Mauretania, kneeling before him, offering an olive-branch; Jugurtha, king of Numidia, kneeling behind. Crawford 426/1; Sydenham 879; Cornelia 59. VF, toned, test cut on reverse.

From the John F. Sullivan Collection.