Triton XIV, Lot: 595. Estimate $10000. Sold for $55000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Julius Caesar. August 43 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.73 g, 8h). Rome mint. L. Flaminius Chilo, moneyer. Head of Caesar right, wearing laurel wreath / Venus Genetrix as Felicitas standing left, holding caduceus in outstretched right hand and long scepter in left; L • FLAMINIVS down right field, IIII VIR up left. Crawford 485/1; CRI 113; Sydenham 1089; Kestner 3699; BMCRR Rome 4201-2; RSC 26. Near EF, deeply toned. Wonderful portrait. Boldly struck on both sides.
From the C.K. Collection. Ex John Work Garrett Collection (Part I, Numismatic Fine Arts & Leu, 16 May 1984), lot 678; Clarence S. Bement Collection (Ars Classica VIII, 1924), lot 390.