Exceptional Birthday Issue for Caesar

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 604. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. 48-47 BC. AR Denarius (4.01 g, 4h). Military mint moving with Caesar. Diademed female head (Clementia?) right, wearing oak-wreath, hair decorated with jewels, cruciform earring, and pearl necklace; ⊥II (= 52, Caesar's age) behind / CAE-SAR across lower field, Gallic trophy, wearing horned helmet, holding oval shield ornamented with thunderbolt in right hand, and carnyx in left; axe surmounted by wolf's head to right. Crawford 452/2; CRI 11; Sydenham 1009; Kestner 3558-3559; BMCRR Rome 3955-3958; RSC 18. EF, attractive gray and peach toning, slight die shift on reverse. Well centered and boldly struck on a broad flan.