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195, Lot: 233. Estimate $150.
Sold for $295. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Cn. Plancius. 55 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.75 g, 6h). Rome mint. Female head Diana Planciana right, wearing petasus / Cretan goat standing right; bow and quiver behind. Crawford 432/1; Sydenham 933; Plancia 1. Good VF, a few marks.


Cn. Plancius first served as propraetor in Africa under A. Torquatus and then in Crete in 68 BC under Q. Metellus. In 62 BC he was a military tribune in the army of C. Antonius in Macedonia and in 56 BC became quaestor of Macedonia. Plancius was a friend of Cicero and in 55 BC, after being elected to the curule aedileship, was defended by him against charges of election corruption.