Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 1028. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $670. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Brutus. Early summer 42 BC. AR Denarius (3.73 g, 12h). Military mint with Brutus and Cassius in the East; L Sestius, pro-quaestor. Veiled and draped bust of Libertas right / Tripod; axe and simpulum flanking. Crawford 502/2; CRI 201; Sydenham 1290; RSC 11. VF, toned, banker’s mark on obverse, a few shallow edge test cuts.

From the Gordon S. Parry Collection.