Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 501. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $640. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. 47-46 BC. AR Denarius (3.86 g, 6h). Military mint moving with Caesar in North Africa. Diademed head of Venus right, wearing necklace, hair collected into a knot, falling in two locks / Aeneas, naked, advancing left, head facing, holding palladium in extended right hand and bearing his father, Anchises, wearing long tunic and hood, on his left shoulder; CAESAR to right. Crawford 458/1; CRI 55; Sydenham 1013; Kestner 3577-9; BMCRR East 31-5; RSC 12. EF, lustrous, light scratch on obverse.