CNG 85, Lot: 820. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. 49-48 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.95 g, 8h). Military mint traveling with Caesar. Elephant advancing right, trampling on horned serpent / Emblems of the pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, securis, and apex. Crawford 443/1; CRI 9; Sydenham 1006; RSC 49. Near EF, dark toning, slightly flat strike on face of elephant.

From the Collection of a Northern California Gentleman. Ex Edward Gans Collection.