Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 964. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Brutus. Late summer-autumn 42 BC. AR Denarius (3.95 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Brutus and Cassius in western Asia Minor or northern Greece. Pedanius Costa, legate. Laureate head of Apollo right / Trophy, holding shield and crossed spears. Crawford 506/2; CRI 209; Sydenham 1296; RSC 4. EF, deeply toned, traces of deposits on obverse. Well centered on both sides.