Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 605. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

L. Plautius Plancus. 47 BC. AR Denarius (3.96 g, 4h). Rome mint. L • PLAVTIVS below, Facing mask of Medusa with disheveled hair, coiled serpents at either side of face / PLANCVS below, Aurora, draped and winged, flying right, head facing slightly left, holding reins in each hand and palm frond in left, conducting four rearing horses of the sun. Crawford 453/1a; CRI 29; Sydenham 959; Kestner 3561-3562; BMCRR Rome 4004; Plautia 15. Good VF, deep mauve-gray toning, area of flat strike, as usual, a shallow, narrow edge test cut.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 49 (17 March 1999), lot 1271.