128, Lot: 264. Estimate $75. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

M. Cato. 47-46 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.95 g, 11h). Utica, Sicily mint. Draped female bust right / Victory seated right holding patera. Crawford 462/1c; CRI 46; Sydenham 1052; Porcia 9. EF, light irridescant toning, reverse a little off center. 

This issue imitates an issue by another M. Cato in 89 BC. This moneyer was propraetor in Sicily under authority of the Senate at the beginning of the civil war.From the Harry Strickhausen Collection.