Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 484. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

L. Torquatus. 58 BC. AR Denarius (3.80 g, 5h). Rome mint. Head of Sibyl right, wearing ivy wreath, the fillets of which, with a lock of hair, fall down her neck; [S]IBVLLA below / Tripod surmounted by an amphora between two stars; L • TORQVAT to left, III • VIR to right; all within torque. Crawford 411/1b var. (border of dots); Sydenham 836 var. (SIBYLLA); Kestner 3391; BMCRR Rome 3514; Manlia 12a. EF, banker’s mark on obverse.