Triton XIV, Lot: 587. Estimate $750. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

L. Cornelius Lentulus and C. Claudius Marcellus. 49 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.98 g, 2h). Apollonia in Illyricum mint. Head of Apollo right; L • LENT • C • (MA ligate)RC before, COS behind / Jupiter standing facing, head right, holding thunderbolt in extended right hand and in extended left, eagle right, head left, with wings displayed; eight-rayed star above Q to left, garlanded altar to right. Crawford 445/2; CRI 5; Sydenham 1030; Kestner 3530-3531; BMCRR East 21; Cornelia 65. EF, lightly toned, trace of underlying luster.

Ex Tony Hardy Collection (Triton VI, 14 January 2003), lot 753.