244, Lot: 391. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. Early 46 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 4.02 g, 10h). Utica(?) mint. Head of Ceres right, wearing wreath of grain / Emblems of the augurate and pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, capis, and lituus; D (donativum = largess) to right. Crawford 467/1a; CRI 57; Sydenham 1023; RSC 4a. Good VF, darkly toned, light rough spot above head.