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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 617. Estimate $1000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008. 
Sold For $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Brutus. 42 BC. AR Denarius (3.78 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Brutus and Cassius in western Asia Minor or northern Greece. Pedanius Costa, legate. COSTA LEG, head of Apollo right, wearing hair rolled back, collected into a knot behind, and a lock or so falling down neck; all within beaded or radiate border / BRVTVS IMP, trophy facing, composed of cuirass, wearing crested helmet, holding oval shield with incurved sides in right and a pair of crossed spears in left. Crawford 506/2; CRI 209; Sydenham 1296; Kestner 3775-3776; BMCRR East 59-61; RSC 4. EF, light toning.


Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XXIX (13 August 1992), lot 314.