Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 601. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $775. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

C. Considius Nonianus. 56 BC. AR Denarius (3.96 g, 3h). Rome mint. C•CONSIDI•NONIANI behind, S•C below chin, laureate, diademed, and draped bust of Venus Erycina right, wearing double necklace of pearls and pendants, cruciform earring, and jewels in hair, pulled into a knot, two locks falling down neck / ERVC above gateway, tetrastyle temple with pellet on pediment on summit of mountain, surrounded by rampart with gateway in the center and tower at each side. Crawford 424/1; Sydenham 886; Kestner 3449-3450; BMCRR Rome 3830; Considia 1. Near EF, toned.