Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 997. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. 47-46 BC. AR Denarius (3.87 g, 6h). Military mint traveling with Caesar in North Africa. Diademed head of Venus right / Aeneas advancing left, carrying his father Anchises and palladium. Crawford 458; CRI 55; Sydenham 1013; RSC 10. Near EF, lustrous, flan crack.