Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 490. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $440. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

A. Plautius. 55 BC. AR Denarius (3.70 g, 6h). Rome mint. Turreted head of Cybele right, wearing cruciform earring, hair in knot, locks falling down neck; A • PLAVTIVS AED • CVR • S • C around / Bacchius kneeling right beside his camel, holding reins in left hand and extending olive branch upward in right; IVDAEVS upwards in right field, BACCHIVS in exergue. Crawford 431/1; Sydenham 932; Kestner 3479-80; BMCRR Rome 3916-9; Plautia 13. Good VF, areas of minor granularity and light marks on obverse. Well centered for issue.