Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 939. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. Early 46 BC. AR Denarius (3.93 g, 12h). Utica(?) mint. Head of Ceres right, wearing wreath of grain / Emblems of the augurate and pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, capis, and lituus; D (donativum = largess) to right. Crawford 467/1a; CRI 57; Sydenham 1023; RSC 4a. Near EF, even gray toning with iridescence around the devices.