Fine Style Caesar Portrait

Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 3240. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $5600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. 44 BC. AR Denarius (3.66 g, 8h). Rome mint; P. Sepullius Macer, moneyer. Laureate head right; star of eight rays behind / Venus standing left, holding Victory and scepter set on star. Crawford 480/5b; Alföldi Type V (A2/R12; an unlisted die combination); CRI 106a; Sydenham 1071; RSC 41. Good VF, toned, reverse struck with clashed die, small scratch in obverse field. Portrait of fine style.

From the John A. Seeger Collection.