Bold Caesar Portrait

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 608. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. January-February 44 BC. AR Denarius (4.09 g, 3h). Rome mint. P. Servillius Macer, moneyer. CAESAR IMP before, laureate head right; star of eight rays behind / P • SERVILLIVS to right, MACER to left, Venus standing left, holding Victory on extended right hand and with left, resting on scepter set on star. Crawford 480/5b; Alföldi Type V, 141 (A15/R29); CRI 106a; Sydenham 1071; Kestner -; BMCRR Rome 4165-4166; RSC 41. EF, light gray toning, a few shallow marks beneath tone, traces of die rust, trivial obverse flan flaw at star. Bold portrait.