Triton XIV, Lot: 594. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. February-March 44 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.73 g, 2h). Lifetime issue. Rome mint. P. Servillius Macer, moneyer. Wreathed and veiled head right; CAESAR before, DICT PERPETVO behind / Venus Victrix standing left, holding Victory on right hand, and with left, leaning on scepter set on eight-pointed star; P SEPVLLIVS downwards to right, MACER downwards to left. Crawford 480/14; Alföldi Type VII, 64 (A11/R10); CRI 107e; Sydenham 1074a; Kestner -; BMCRR Rome 4175; RSC 39/40; CNR 143/1 (same dies as illustration). Near EF, handsome old collection toning, area of slightly flat strike on wreath and corresponding reverse.

From the Collection of a Northern California Gentleman.