449, Lot: 500. Estimate $100. Sold for $230. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome. Mn. Cordius Rufus. 46 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.42 g, 6h). Rome mint. Conjoined heads of the Dioscuri right, wearing laureate pilei surmounted by stars / Venus Verticordia standing left, holding scales and transverse scepter; Cupid on her shoulder. Crawford 463/1a; CRI 63; Sydenham 976; Cordia 2a. Lightly toned with some iridescence, banker’s mark on obverse, faint hairlines on reverse. VF.

Ex Pegasi Auctions XVIII (1 April 2008), lot 384.