Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 525. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Brutus. Late summer-autumn 42 BC. AR Denarius (3.99 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Brutus and Cassius in Western Asia Minor or Northern Greece. Pedanius Costa, legate. Laureate head of Apollo right; LEG behind, COSTA before / Trophy composed of cuirass, crested helmet, oval shield with incurved sides, and two crossed spears; BRVTVS to left, IMP to right. Crawford 506/2; CRI 209; Sydenham 1296; Kestner 3775-6; BMCRR East 59-61; RSC 4. Superb EF, lustrous.