Quality Caesar Denarius

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 286. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. Early 46 BC. AR Denarius (3.90 g, 10h). Utica(?) mint. Head of Ceres right, wearing wreath of grain; COS • TERT behind, DICT • ITER before / Emblems of the augurate and pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, capis, and lituus; M (munus = gift) to right, AVGVR above, PONT • MAX below. Crawford 467/1b; CRI 57a; Sydenham 1024; Kestner 3639-40; BMCRR Africa 23-5; RSC 4. Superb EF, handsome light gray and peach iridescent toning. Exceptional in this lofty state of preservation.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 78 (14 May 2008), lot 1615.