Triton XVII, Lot: 588. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Republicans. Brutus. Early 42 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.70 g, 12h). Military mint, probably at Smyrna; P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, legate. Emblems of the pontificate: securis, simpulum, and secespita; BRVTVS below / Emblems of the augurate: capis and lituus; LENTVLVS/SPINT in two lines below. Crawford 500/7; CRI 198; Sydenham 1310; Kestner 3770; BMCRR East 80-1; RSC 6. VF, toned, a pair of bankers’ marks on obverse.

From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.24927.