Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 505. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lollius Palicanus. 45 BC. AR Denarius (3.89 g, 6h). Rome mint. Diademed head of Libertas right, wearing cruciform earring and pearl necklace, two locks of hair falling down her neck; [L]IBERTATIS behind / View of Rostra in the Roman Forum, ornamented with ships’ beaks and surmounted by subsellium (tribune’s bench); PALIKANVS above. Crawford 473/1; CRI 86; Sydenham 960; Kestner 3655-6; BMCRR Rome 4011-3; Lollia 2. EF, areas of die rust and shallow cleaning scratches on obverse, die break on reverse.