Exceptional Caesar Portrait

Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1277. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. January-February 44 BC. AR Denarius (3.63 g, 5h). Rome mint. P. Servillius Macer, moneyer. Laureate head right; star behind / Venus standing left, holding Victory and scepter set on star. Crawford 480/5b; Alföldi Type V, 52 (A30/R25); CRI 106a; Sydenham 1071; RSC 41. EF, toned, small banker’s mark above star on obverse, traces of die rust on obverse. Well centered and struck. Great portrait.

From the Karl Sifferman Collection.