Very Rare Portrait Aureus of Julius Caesar

CNG 102, Lot: 828. Estimate $30000. Sold for $35000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Octavian and Julius Caesar. August 43 BC. AV Aureus (20mm, 8.11 g, 2h). Military mint travelling with Octavian in Italy. Bare head of Octavian right, wearing slight beard; C • CAESAR• COS • PO(NT) • (AV)G • around / Head of Julius Caesar right, wearing wreath; C • CAESAR• COS • PO(NT) • (MA)X • around. Crawford 490/2; CRI 132; Bahrfeldt 28; Calicó 52; Sydenham 1321; Kestner -; BMCRR Gaul 74-5; cf. CNR 1/3 and 4/2 (for type); RBW 1714. VF, traces of deposits in devices, several scrapes on obverse. Very rare.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Stack’s Bowers & Ponterio (9 January 2015), lot 215.