Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 3233. Estimate $300. Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007. Sold For $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Julius Caesar. 48-47 BC. AR Denarius (3.88 g, 11h). Military mint moving with Caesar. Diademed female head (Clementia?) right, wearing oak-wreath, cruciform earring, and pearl necklace;
^II behind / Gallic trophy with carnyx and oval shield ornamented with thunderbolt; axe surmounted by animal's head to right. Crawford 452/2; CRI 11; Sydenham 1009; RSC 18. VF, toned.
From the John A. Seeger Collection. Ex Miguel Muñoz Collection (Superior, 4-8 June 1979), lot 1495.
^II represents the numeral "52", Caesar's age at the time of the decisive battle of Pharsalus in August 48 BC.