157, Lot: 264. Estimate $100. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Cn. Domitius L.f. Ahenobarbus. 41 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.56 g). Uncertain mint in the region of the Adriatic or Ionian coasts. Bare head right / Prow of galley right, surmounted by trophy. Crawford 519/2; CRI 339; Sydenham 1177; Domitia 21. Fine, toned. Scarce.

This moneyer was the son of the consul of 54 BC, and he was a member of the Pompeian party like his father. He was pardoned by Caesar in 46 BC, and after Caesar's assassination, he followed Brutus to Macedonia as he was among those condemned under the Lex Pedia. He won a decisive naval victory during the first battle of Philippi, and after the deaths of Brutus and Cassius, he became a pirate. In 40 BC, he was reconciled to Mark Antony, who made him governor of Bithynia, but deserted to Octavian right before the battle of Actium and died soon thereafter.