Six Alföldi Plate Coins

237, Lot: 346. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. January-February 44 BC. AR Denarius (21mm, 3.47 g, 3h). Rome mint. P. Sepullius Macer, moneyer. Head right, wearing grain wreath; eight-rayed star to left / Venus standing left, holding Victory and scepter with star. Crawford 480/5b; Alföldi Type V, 126 (this coin); CRI 106a; Sydenham 1071; RSC 41. Near VF, toned, obverse banker’s mark, area of flat strike.

From the Collection of Professor L. Fontana.