Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 616. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Brutus. 42 BC. AR Denarius (3.41 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Brutus in Lycia. C. Flavius Hemicillus, legatus pro praetore. C • FLAV • HEMIC • LEG • PRO • PR, draped bust of Apollo right, hair rolled back and collected into a knot behind; lyre before / IMP • Q • CAEP • BRVT •, to left, trophy set in ground, consisting of a cuirass surmounted by a crested helmet, holding an oval shield with incurved sides in right and a long thin curved sword with closed hilt in left, being crowned by Victory to right, standing left, holding wreath in right hand and palm frond in left over left shoulder. Crawford 504/1; CRI 205; Sydenham 1294; Kestner 3774; BMCRR East 55-56; RSC 7. VF, toned, tiny drill mark in right field of obverse, light scratches and tiny die break on portrait.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 50 (23 June 1999), lot 1351.