227, Lot: 428. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1093. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Brutus. Early 42 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.76 g, 11h). Military mint, probably at Smyrna. P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, legate. Securis, simpulum, and secespita / Capis and lituus. Crawford 500/7; CRI 198; Sydenham 1310; RSC 6. EF, slightly off center.

The obverse depicts the symbols of the college of pontifices to which Brutus belonged, while the reverse bears the symbols of the priestly college to which P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther was elected in 57 BC, namely, the augurate.