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The Tyrannicide Honored

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 295. Estimate $1500. 
Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010. 
Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Brutus. Early 42 BC. AR Denarius (3.85 g, 12h). Military mint, probably at Smyrna. P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, legate. Securis, simpulum, and secespita; BRVTVS below / Capis and lituus; LENTVLVS/SPINT in two lines below. Crawford 500/7; CRI 198; Sydenham 1310; Kestner 3770; BMCRR East 80-1; RSC 6. EF, lustrous, attractive light toning, slight die shift on reverse. Bold strike and well centered.


Ex Classical Numismatic Group 76/1 (12 September 2007), lot 1292.