Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1614. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $3900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. 46 BC. AV Aureus (8.06 g, 11h). Rome mint. Aulus Hirtius, Praetor. Veiled female head (Pietas? or Vesta?) right / Lituus, jug, and axe. Crawford 466/1; Calicó 37c; CRI 56; Sydenham 1018. VF, scrape behind the eye and below neck, edge nick at about 5 o’clock, traces of deposits.