141, Lot: 174. Estimate $200. Sold for $297. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

T. Carisius. 46 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.61 g). Head of Juno right / Minting implements, all within wreath: wreathed cap of Vulcan above moneyer’s anvil between tongs and hammer. Crawford 464/2; Sydenham 982; CRI 70; Carisia 1a. Good VF, toned, obverse slightly off center and weakly struck.

The identification of the obverse bust as Juno is questionable since she is not wearing the usual stephane of the Queen of the Olympians and wife of Jupiter. Although accompanied by one of her ancient titles moneta, from moneo (warn, advise or council), it is eminently probable that by this time Moneta was a minor personification in her own right. The same personification can be seen on the reverse of Domitian’s Moneta August aes issue of AD 84, which celebrates the reopening of the mint after the fire of AD 81.