Two Exceptional Caesar Portraits

Triton XIV, Lot: 605. Estimate $20000. Sold for $90000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. 40 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 4.10 g, 11h). Rome mint. Q. Voconius Vitulus, moneyer. Head right, wearing laurel wreath; DIVI • IVLI before, lituus behind / Bull-calf walking left; Q • VOCONIVS above, VITVLVS in exergue. Crawford 526/2; CRI 329; Sydenham 1132; Kestner 3808; BMCRR Rome 4308-10; RSC 46. FDC, handsome cabinet toning. Exceptional portrait of Caesar.

From the C.K. Collection.