205, Lot: 359. Estimate $150. Sold for $536. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

C. Memmius C.f. 56 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.87 g, 5h). Rome mint. Laureate and bearded head of Romulus right / Ceres seated right holding torch and grain ears; serpent at feet to right. Crawford 427/2; Sydenham 921; Memmia 9. Good VF, iridescent toning, obverse slightly off-center.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.