Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 499. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. Late 48 BC. AR Denarius (3.69 g, 8h). Military mint traveling with Caesar. Diademed female head (Clementia?) right, wearing oak-wreath, cruciform earring, and pearl necklace; ^II behind / Trophy of Gallic arms, wearing horned helmet, holding oval shield ornamented with thunderbolt in right hand and carnyx in left; securis to right, CAE-SAR across lower field. Crawford 452/2; CRI 11; Sydenham 1009; Kestner 3558-9; BMCRR Rome 3955-8; RSC 18. EF, minor die rust on obverse.

^II represents the numeral "52", Caesar's age at the time of the decisive battle of Pharsalus in August 48 BC.