Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 923. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $775. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Servilius Caepio Brutus (M. Junius Brutus). 54 BC. AR Denarius (4.05 gm, 6h). Rome mint. BRVTVS behind, bare-headed and bearded head of L. Junius Brutus right / AHALA behind, bare-headed and bearded head of Caius Servilius Ahala right. Crawford 433/2; Sydenham 907; Kestner 3489; BMCRR Rome 3864; CNR Iunia 38/6 (this coin); Junia 30. Good VF, wonderful old cabinet toning, obverse struck off-center, tiny mark below the eye of Brutus. ($500)

From the Claude Collection.