Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 611. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

C. Cassius Longinus. 42 BC. AR Denarius (3.94 g, 7h). Military mint, probably at Smyrna. P. Lentulus Spinther, legate. C • CASSI • IMP behind, LEIBERTAS before, diademed head of Libertas right, wearing earring and pearl necklace; hair rolled back, collected into a knot behind, and falling down her neck / LENTVLVS/SPINT in two lines below, capis (one-handled jug) and lituus. Crawford 500/3; CRI 221; Sydenham 1307; Kestner 3780; BMCRR East 77-78; RSC 4. EF, lightly toned, a shallow scratch from about 1 o’clock to 3 o’clock on obverse near edge.

Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XXVI (14 August 1991), lot 199.