Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 508. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. January-February 44 BC. AR Denarius (3.58 g, 7h). Rome mint. Wreathed head right; behind, lituus above simpulum; CAESAR • IMP before / Venus Victrix standing left, holding Victory in right hand and transverse scepter in left, resting left arm on shield set on globe; G to left, M • METTIVS to right. Crawford 480/3; Alföldi Type III, 6 (A1/R2) ; CRI 100; Sydenham 1056; Kestner -; BMCRR Rome 4143-5; RSC 34. Good VF, lustrous, die rust on obverse, small area of flat strike.