Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 742. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

M. Junius Brutus. 54 BC. AR Denarius (3.98 gm). Bust of Liberty right; LIBERTAS behind / The consul L. Junius Brutus walking left between two lictors preceded by an accensus; BRVTVS in exergue. Junia 31a; Sydenham 906a; Crawford 433/1. Lightly toned EF, small flan flaw in obverse field. ($500)

The reverse type of this coin recalls the expulsion of the Tarquinius Superbus, the last king of Rome, by L. Junius Brutus, the moneyer's ancestor, who in 509 BC was elected the first consul of the newly formed Republic.