255, Lot: 147. Estimate $300. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MAURETANIA. Juba II, with Cleopatra Selene. 25 BC-AD 24. AR Denarius (18mm, 2.95 g, 5h). Caesarea mint. Struck circa 20 BC-AD 24. Diademed head right / Star in crescent. MAA 97; SNG Copenhagen 567. VF, weak strike.

For almost fifty years Juba II maintained order in North Africa as one of Rome's most loyal client kings. In AD 11, he had been given Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleopatra VII of Egypt, as a wife by a grateful Augustus, and their son, Ptolemy, succeeded him in AD 24.