Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 935. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. 47-46 BC. AR Denarius (3.61 g, 7h). Military mint traveling with Caesar in North Africa. Diademed head of Venus right / Aeneas advancing left, holding palladium and bearing Anchises on his shoulder. Crawford 458/1; CRI 55; Sydenham 1013; RSC 12. Near EF, bright surfaces, hairline flan crack.