Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 283. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $440. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Man. Acilius Glabrio. 49 BC. AR Denarius (3.93 g, 6h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Salus right, wearing cruciform earring, necklace, hair in knot ornamented with jewels, locks falling down neck, jewels also in hair above forehead; SALVTIS upwards behind / Valetudo (Salus), draped, standing left, holding serpent in right hand, resting left elbow on column, serpent’s tail to the lower right of column; MN • ACILIVS III • VIR • VALETV around. Crawford 442/1a; CRI 16; Sydenham 922; Kestner 3511-2; BMCRR Rome 3946; Acilia 8. Near EF, attractively toned, some die rust on obverse.