Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 511. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. March-April 44 BC. AR Denarius (4.01 g, 3h). Rome mint. M. Mettius, moneyer. Wreathed head right; CAESAR before, IMPER behind / Venus standing left, holding Victory in extended right hand and transverse scepter in left, resting left arm on shield set on globe; A to left, M • METTIVS to right. Crawford 480/17; Alföldi Type XVI, 59 (A9/R7); CRI 101; Sydenham 1055; BMCRR Rome 4137; RSC 35. EF, handsome deep gray collection toning. Exceptional portrait.

From a Gentleman’s Collection. Ex Leu 72 (12 May 1998), lot 395; Münzen und Medaillen AG XIX (5 June 1959), lot 126.