Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 908. Estimate $500. Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007. Sold For $770. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Julius Caesar. 48-47 BC. AR Quinarius (1.89 g, 6h). Military mint moving with Caesar. Veiled female head (Vesta?) right; behind,
^II (= 52, Caesar's age) above simpulum / Trophy; wreath to left, ancile to right. Crawford 452/3; CRI 14; Sydenham 1012; RSC 16. VF, toned, bankers’ marks, edge test cut, reverse struck slightly off center. Rare.
Ex Lanz 78 (25 November 1996), lot 468.