Triton XIV, Lot: 593. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. Early 46 BC. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.78 g, 4h). Rome mint. Aulus Hirtius, praetor. Veiled female head (Vesta or Pietas?) right; C • CAESAR behind, COS • TER before / Emblems of the pontificate: lituus, guttus, and securis; A • HIRTIVS PR to lower left. Molinari 106-29 (D7/R214); Crawford 466/1; CRI 56; Bahrfeldt 19, 69 (pl. IV, 2 – same dies as illustration); Calicó 36 (same dies as illustration); Sydenham 1017; Kestner 3634-6; BMCRR Rome 4050; CNR 5/1 (same dies as illustration). EF, toned, underlying luster. Refined style.

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